ebonic

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adjective

Employing or pertaining to Ebonics.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

ebonic1

adjectiveebonic (comparative more ebonic, superlative most ebonic)

comparative more ebonic · superlative most ebonic

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Ebonic.

    On the thick, menacing, and eminently jeepable “We Don't Care,” Pun trades verses with fellow Terror Squad initiate Cuban Link and the duo put on an ebonic poetry clinic.

    2007, William Cobb, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic, page 153

Ebonic2

adjectiveEbonic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableEmploying or pertaining to Ebonics.

    […] simply uttering, muttering, humming, and hawing incomprehensible ebonic sounds.

    2006, Amy Plantinga Pauw, Serene Jones, Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics
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    Still, denial persists regarding the existence and sociolinguistic vitality of Ebonic language varieties.

    1994, Steven Gregory, Roger Sanjek, Race

    […] so that ebonic speakers use a morphology akin to the grammatical structure of the Niger-Kordofanian family.

    1998, Vincent D'Oyley, Carl James, Re/visioning

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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