Mancunianism

plural Mancunianisms

1. A word or phrase characteristic of the city of Manchester or the Mancunian dialect.

   Surely there were *male* borogoves too? Never heard of mimsy meaning that down yere in Kairdiff, perhaps it's a Mancunianism.

   2009 December 30, Prai Jei, “Re: bad word?”, in sci.lang (Usenet)

   2 more examples

   To go along with another famous epigram from the Manchester of the period: “Adulteration of food was only a form of competition.” The two were combined in yet a third vintage Mancunianism. [footnote]

   1974, Steven Marcus, Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 20

   I told her the Tina story, at length, throwing in a few Mancunianisms to go with the accent, and she laughed through it. I was enjoying myself, too.

   2016, Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp, London: Michael Joseph, published 2017, →ISBN, page 30