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Australianism|ɔːˈstreɪlɪənɪz(ə)m|
[f. Australian + -ism.]
An idiom or mode of expression peculiar to Australian English; an attitude of mind characteristic of Australia or an Australian. So Austraˈlasianism.
1891Daily News 26 June 5/2 He appears to think that our speech is in danger of being invaded by Australianisms. 1891Harper's Mag. July 215/1 The coming degradation of the English language by the invasion of Australasianisms. 1905Daily Chron. 22 Nov. 6/7 There are ‘Australianisms’ enough to make a dictionary an essential for the proper understanding of an Antipodean journal. 1911E. M. Clowes On Wallaby vii. 179 One place in Melbourne..where the Frenchman, the German,..and Russian throw off the garment of Australianism, and eat, look, and speak like men of their own country. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xvi. 281 They would prove their Australianism by rallying to England's defence. |