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单词 east anglian
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East Anglianadj.n.

Brit. /ˌiːst ˈaŋɡlɪən/, U.S. /ˌist ˈæŋɡliən/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name East Anglia , -an suffix.
Etymology: < the name of the early medieval kingdom of East Anglia + -an suffix. Compare later Anglian adj., and earlier East Angle n.East Anglia occurs as a place name (originally in historical use for the medieval kingdom) from at least the second half of the 16th cent. onwards. East England is occasionally attested in the 15th cent. denoting the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk taken together.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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