| 释义 |
clipped
adjective
Etymology: from past participle of clip (III)
: characterized by more fortis articulation, more frequent syncope, and often more rapid tempo than the usual speech in another dialect or language (as southern British speech in comparison with most United States speech, the former often having for example a full stop \t\ instead of a flap \d.\ for the t of city, a vigorously flapped consonantal sound instead of the more laxly articulated vocalic or vowellike sound for the r of very, an \i\ instead of the laxer \ə\ for the e of naked, and \tri\ instead of unsyncopated \ˌterē\ for the -tery of cemetery)
< a clipped crackling elliptical French — Dorothy C. Fisher > |