单词 | englishism |
释义 | Englishismn. 1. = Englishness n. Also: attachment to what is English; an English mode of procedure; a sign or product of an English character. Cf. Anglicism n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > character of Anglicism1647 John Bullism1791 Englishism1802 Bullism1821 English-hood1842 Englishry1894 1802 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1975) V. 217 That Englishism of reserve for which I am so noted.. was not very likely to be metamorphosed into companionabilityness. 1843 Mrs. H. Wood Change for Amer. Notes xxxii. 73/2 Mr Wilderton and his family, confident in my Englishism, sometimes sportively turn the conversation to Yankee topics when any one is present who does not know I am a native of America. 1855 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 22 177 He..certificated his patriotism when only an excess of English-ism was imputed. 1868 M. Reid Child Wife (1888) xix. 101 In his own features..there was an unmistakable expression of ‘Englishism’. 1923 Polit. Sci. Q. 38 706 How..can one be hopeful of the future of Englishism when..the English saw their prime minister a Welshman..the commander of their armies a Scotchman and the admiral of their fleet an Irishman? 1960 G. Allighan Curtain-up on S. Afr. 77 It is a town of quiet dignity and beautiful homes... Englishism is woven into the fibre of the town's entire character. 2006 Express (Nexis) 9 Jan. 18 You do have to admire the cheek of the wonderful people who brought us the Millennium Dome..now trying to turn our minds towards ageless national symbols such as Stonehenge... Yet their new-found Englishism is cause for gratitude. 2. An English idiom or form of speech; = Anglicism n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English > idiom of Londonism1803 cockneyism1804 Englishism1804 Suffolkism1823 Borderism1839 Northumbrianism1845 Yorkshirism1849 Brummagism1858 southernism1920 northernism1942 1804 H. C. Robinson Let. 3 June in E. J. Morley Crabb Robinson in Germany 1800–1805 (1929) 147 To express what we shod call puritanism in language..the Word Englanderei has been invented ie an englishism. 1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Englishism, an English peculiarity or idiom. 1923 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 203/2 We..did the best we might with blunt Englishisms. 1974 Encounter 43 iv. 58/1 Russell Baker..may have encountered some or all of these Englishisms when he began one desperate column..with these words: ‘One of the hardest languages for an American to learn is English’. 1990 P. Roth Deception 108 He was just eccentric, they told me, crazy—‘mad’ is the euphemistic Englishism. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > English political principles or methods Englishism1853 Anglicism1873 1853 J. W. Kaye Admin. of East India Company (ed. 2) ii. ii.181 The Zemindarree settlement was an idea hastily conceived..an ignorant Englishism, in short, utterly unsuited to the country in which it was designed to make it strike root. It was emphatically the work of the Company's civil servants. 1865 J. W. Kaye Hist. Sepoy War (heading) The Progress of Englishism [sc. the remodelling of land tenure in India according to English notions]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1802 |
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