d4
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English
2
Scrabble Score
1
Letters
1
Syllables
1
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The upper middle class of Dublin or Ireland as a whole.
name
A version of Advanced Dublin English, a high prestige dialect of Dublin and Ireland, derived from the dialect of South Dublin, and peaking in popularity in the 1990s and 2000s.
name
The fandom of Leinster Rugby, especially when seen as snobbish, insular and exerting undue influence on the Irish Rugby Football Union nationally.
Derogatory
noun
Alternative letter-case form of d4.
noun
Example Sentences
- "The d4 can be used to generate 25% incremental probabilities, random numbers from 1 to 4, with +1 it generates a linear 2-5, etc."
- "The show divided public opinion on the grounds that it presented a "D4" lifestyle which was not representative of life outside of Dublin."
- "Shane knew the suspicion was due to his accent, and the tracksuit he'd worn on the first day. Skanger, he thought to himself, that's what she thinks of me. Or what's the other word the culchies use? Scrote. Then the D4 heads: knacker, scobe. The Old Bill: scumbag."
- "According to Hickey, while discarding unpopular elements of D4 and Dortspeak, this new pronunciation form, however, retained a number of features of its predecessors such as the raising of non-local back vowels and the retraction of /ai/ in differentiating itself from local speech forms."
- "Authors of newspaper editorials tied the use of D4 to what they imagined was the rejection of Irish identity."
- "Anyone who has been along to the RDS in the past 8 years will know Leinster have very successfully discarded it old D4 image."
Etymology
From Dublin 4, a postal code covering the Southside of Dublin, which includes some of the most expensive properties in Ireland and the headquarters of various prestigious institutions (including Aviva Stadium, headquarters of the Irish Rugby Football Union).