southernism

English

Etymology

southern + -ism

Noun

southernism (countable and uncountable, plural southernisms)

  1. Anything characteristic of the southern part of a region, especially the southern United States.
    • 1954, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons official report:
      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.
  2. A word or phrase (a dialectism) from Southern American English.
    • 1988 April 23, Cindy Patton, “Bob Andrews: A Life Celebration”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
      I loved his languid, Southern speech and little southernisms, like "you can't put a sequin on a rat's ass."
    • 2015, Michael D. Picone, Catherine Evans Davies, New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 169:
      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).

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