Briticism
/ˈbrɪtɪsɪz(ə)m
/(also Britishism /ˈbrɪtɪʃɪz(ə)m/)
noun
An idiom used in Britain but not in other English-speaking countries: ‘Toy boy’ is a Briticism for a ‘gigolo.’...
- Scholars of English in the US are as inclined to point out Briticisms as their colleagues in the UK are to point out Americanisms.
- Specialism must be a Britishism, I told myself.
- More open to interpretation is ‘off one's own bat ’, which certainly originates from cricket, but is not always marked as a Briticism in American dictionaries.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from British, on the pattern of words such as Gallicism.
- trophozoite
- trophozooid
- trophus
- trophy
- -trophy
- trophy badge
- trophy bearer
- trophy child
- trophy decoration
- trophy flag
- trophy hunter
- trophy hunting
- trophyless
- trophy lock
- trophy money
- trophy race
- trophy tax
- trophy wife
- tropic
- -tropic
- tropic acid
- tropical
- tropical cyclone
- tropical depression
- tropical forest