单词 | eye dialect |
释义 | eye dialectnounthe literary use of misspellings that are intended to convey a speaker's lack of education or use of humorously dialectal pronunciations but that are actually no more than respellings of standard pronunciations, as wimmin for “women,” wuz for “was,” and peepul for “people.” Compare pronunciation spelling. Origin of eye dialectFirst recorded in 1920–25 usage note for eye dialectEye Dialect is used as a label for such misspellings in this dictionary. Words nearby eye dialecteye-catching, eye chart, eye contact, eyecup, eyed, eye dialect, eyedness, eye doctor, eye dog, eyedropper, eye drops Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 |
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