单词 | east anglian |
释义 | East Anglianadj.n. A. adj. Of or relating to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia, to the area of England formerly belonging to this kingdom, or to the modern geographical area of East Anglia. Also: of the English language as spoken in East Anglia. Cf. also East Anglish adj. at Anglish adj.East Anglia is now typically used to denote the modern English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and sometimes Cambridgeshire and parts of Essex. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [adjective] > districts of England > specific counties Kentisha1100 Norfolk1407 Northumbrian1602 Somersetian1612 Sussexian1612 Sussexan1614 East Anglian1622 Suffolkian1622 Yorkshire1683 Cumbrian1780 Cornubian1782 broad-acred1898 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxiv. 99 The daughter that is nam'd of noble Ethelwold, A great East- Anglian Earle, of Ramsey Abbas long. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 9 The fifteenth King was Edmund..whose body was buried at the Towne where Sigebert the East Anglian King, one of his Predecessors, had built a Church. 1726 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. iii. 166 Both the East-Anglian Kings [Fr. les deux Rois d'Estanglie] being slain. 1875 Bibliogr. List of Eng. Dial. 50 On the principal characteristics of East Anglian pronunciation. 1952 Times 8 Dec. 8/1 Coastguards were again on thick weather watch along the East Anglian coast. 1998 Independent (Nexis) 20 June 10 A sky like a dirty dishcloth engulfed the flatlands of the East Anglian landscape. B. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia, or of the modern geographical region of East Anglia. ΚΠ 1726 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. iii. 221 The same Terms, granted to the Mercians and East-Anglians. 1874 Q. Rev. Oct. 494 To this day also, an East Anglian talks, not without a shade of contempt, of an inhabitant of another county as a sheeres man. 1956 E. S. Duckett Alfred the Great i. 2 From what is now Lincolnshire to the Middle and the East Anglians, to the border peoples of Cheshire, Shropshire, and Hereford,..to the Angles of Kent. 1970 G. E. Evans Where Beards wag All xv. 165 Some East Anglians even today call this variety the mulberry. 2005 S. Elmes Talking for Brit. vi. 154 Most East Anglians know what a ‘dwile’ is (a floorcloth or mop) and many will still use the term. 2. The dialect of English spoken in East Anglia. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English > English English north country1698 west country1711 Yorkshire1717 Kenticism1735 English English1783 cockney1812 Cockneyese1823 East Angliana1825 Somersetian1825 Northumbrian1845 Norfolk1863 Kentish1866 Doric1870 Kensingtonian1911 Mummerset1915 Geordie1928 Hoxtoniana1935 scouse1963 mockney1967 Kensington1968 Liverpudlian1985 Jafaican2006 MLE2006 Multicultural London English2006 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Introd. i. 76 Should any reader expect to find under this title, rules by which he may learn to speak East Anglian, he will be disappointed. 1887 F. B. Zincke Some Materials Hist. Wherstead xxvi. 204 ‘Mice’, ‘lice’, ‘hive’, and ‘dive’ are in East Anglian ‘meece’, ‘leece’, ‘heeve’ and ‘deeve’. 1907 Notes & Queries 8 115/1 East-Anglian is a Midland dialect, and..follows a way of its own. 2007 Church Times 20 July 32/3 The old horseman (East Anglian for ploughman) tells me how it was when he drew his first furrow, setting it against a holly bush in the distant hedge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1622 |
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