Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Briticism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an expression that is limited to English as spoken by Englishmen (especially as contrasted with American English).
- noun a custom that is peculiar to England or its citizens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A word, phrase, idiom, or expression peculiar to the
English language as spoken chiefly inGreat Britain .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an expression that is used in Great Britain (especially as contrasted with American English)
- noun a custom that is peculiar to England or its citizens
Etymologies
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Examples
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And Coakley might have lost in any event, simply because a by-election (do we get to call them that or is that just a Britishism?) held during a period of economic angst usually hurts the incumbent party.
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A lot of American style guides, however, have finally decided to dismiss the whole thing as a Britishism.
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A lot of American style guides, however, have finally decided to dismiss the whole thing as a Britishism.
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Let me clarify that "knickers" is a technical term for fencing pants, not a Britishism for underwear.
Archive 2009-04-01 Kat Howard 2009
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Hoovering I think is a Britishism rather than a Canadianism, because I distinctly remember having to look it up when I was a kid and couldn't find it because my parents' dictionaries are too prescriptivist.
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But the past year has seen major publishers, as well as the chains, release dismal financial reports; publishing stalwarts such as Dan Menaker, Jane Friedman (Publishers Weekly's "Publishing Person of the Year" for 2006) and many others who seemed untouchable have abruptly found themselves, in that peculiar Britishism, "made redundant."
John Oakes: This Halloween, I'm Going As a Book Publisher 2009
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Lane delivers a stock, and rather rote, Britishism: "Nothing good ever came of seeking revenge."
William Bradley: Mad Men's Sensational Season Finale -- HuffPost Review 2009
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I don't really hear Cordelia Kenn's voice in accent, and though there are times when a Britishism will throw me, she doesn't sound done up in phoney dialect the way the dialogue in Harry Potter movies often do.
Tish! That's French! Roger Sutton 2007
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Let me clarify that "knickers" is a technical term for fencing pants, not a Britishism for underwear.
With the wardrobe of the Dread Pirate Roberts, and Jack Sparrow's eyeliner Kat Howard 2009
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Hoovering I think is a Britishism rather than a Canadianism
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