Birminghamese

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adjective

Of or relating to the city of Birmingham, England.

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Meanings

adjectiveBirminghamese (comparative more Birminghamese, superlative most Birminghamese)

comparative more Birminghamese · superlative most Birminghamese

  1. Of or relating to the city of Birmingham, England.

    Annie was no different. With her generous Birminghamese attitude, she laid out two dozen candles.

    2001, Annette Willoughby, Innocent in Africa, Authors OnLine, →ISBN, page 201
proper noun
  1. The dialect of English language spoken in the city of Birmingham, England.

    Such a speaker not only knows which of his words with /aː/ are rendered with /æ/ in Birmingham, but also has a general expectation that words with /aː/ in RP will have either /aː/ or /æ/ in Birminghamese, but not other vowels.

    1974 June, Martin D. S. Braine, “On What Might Constitute Learnable Phonology”, in Language, volume 50, number 2, →DOI, page 295

Origin

From Birmingham + -ese.

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Chicago

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