yorkshirism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "[W]e may yet hope to rejoice with our favourites in the brightness of a July noon, and find ourselves, to use a Yorkshirism, ‘in clover.’"
- "Her voice was pleasant, quite devoid of Yorkshirisms, and the words she used were interesting and well chosen."
- "As for names, we spell Richard (Dick) Eccles as Dic, because he is at Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. It is a Yorkshirism. When he is outside Yorkshire we spell it Dick!"