Meaning of southernism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Anything characteristic of the southern part of a region, especially the southern United States.
   countable, uncountable
2. A word or phrase (a dialectism) from Southern American English.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“It is one of the national peccadilloes that anyone who lives north of St. Albans has some kind of prejudice against Londoners — perhaps "prejudice" is the wrong word — or rather not against Londoners but against southernism.”

“I loved his languid, Southern speech and little southernisms, like "you can't put a sequin on a rat's ass."”

“Many are known southernisms in the sense that they are also cited in sources such as Dictionary of American Regional English (henceforth, DARE) or Carver (1987).”

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