southernism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Anything characteristic of the southern part of a region, especially the southern United States.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It is one of the national peccadilloes that anyone who lives north of St. Albans has some kind of prejudice against Londoners — perhaps "prejudice" is the wrong word — or rather not against Londoners but against southernism."
- "I loved his languid, Southern speech and little southernisms, like "you can't put a sequin on a rat's ass.""
- "Many are known southernisms in the sense that they are also cited in sources such as Dictionary of American Regional English (henceforth, DARE) or Carver (1987)."