Kensingtoniann.adj.
/kɛnzɪŋˈtəʊnɪən/ A. n.
a. An inhabitant of Kensington.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > London > parts of London
cocknel1605
Wappineer1690
Savoyard1699
Wappingera1734
West Endian1817
East Ender1821
Belgravian1848
west end1882
Kensingtonian1889
heathen1891
Bloomsburian1902
1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 6 Dec. 2/5 The Kensingtonians are asses to neglect these concerts.
1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse 45 Zulus are far more important..than dogs to Kensingtonians.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xv. 267 The whole of this great grey sun-baked continent [sc. Australia] she regarded much as if it were Hornsey or Tooting Bec, and she a Kensingtonian of high degree.
1968 Listener 6 June 733/1 Hot or cool jazz would have been just too much and might have driven out the dreary West Kensingtonians with their dim uniformed escorts.
1974 Times 23 May 16/7 A Kensingtonian in her eighties..missed the style and elegance of the old shop.
b. A supposedly refined or affected manner of speech typical of people living in Kensington. rare.
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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
1911 A. Bennett Hilda Lessways i. x. 91 Hilda..had been deprived of her Five Towns accent at Chetwynd's School, where the purest Kensingtonian was inculcated.
B. adj.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Kensington; spec. denoting refined or affected speech.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > accent > [adjective] > of particular accents
broad?1533
plum-in-the-mouth1553
strong1735
educated1838
Kensingtonian1902
Morningside1953
cut glass1962
lock-jawed1974
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Britain > London > parts of
Whitechapel1785
west end1820
Mayfair1843
Belgravian1848
Tyburnian1850
West Endian1856
West Central1857
West Endy1890
Kensingtonian1902
Mayfairish1938
South Bank1951
1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns xi. 290 His broad Five Towns speech contrasting with the Kensingtonian accents of the coroner.
1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 June 541/1 Superior Margery Seymour, with her Kensingtonian ‘mothah and brothah’.
1958 Listener 2 Oct. 537/1 A truly Kensingtonian drawing-room.
1960 Times 24 Feb. 15/3 Miss Maggie Smith and Miss Moyra Fraser at times vocally suggested mere Kensingtonian refinement.
1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile v. 82 Somehow it seemed worse and more wounding coming from those Kensingtonian lips.
1971 Listener 28 Oct. 596/3 Kensingtonian shrieks, with fiddle, indicated Gypsies relaxing.
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n.adj.1889