blaccent

plural blaccents · alternative blackcent

1. USAn accent characteristic of African-Americans (black Americans).

   He's black, but doesn't have a trace of a blaccent.

   2003 January 5, Eric Stewart, “the people's kitchen”, in misc.activism.progressive (Usenet)

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   Timberlake has long sought to overcome his whiteness to perfect a "blaccent", as the kids call it these days, and the McDonald's ad campaign explicitly relies on a hiphop idiom.

   2004 February 19, Ben Zimmer, “Is the slogan grammatical?”, in sci.lang (Usenet)

   2005 November 15, “Eli” of Michigan, “Lord of The Dance”, The Life of a Swordfish, at swordfish22.spaces.live.com http://swordfish22.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!3E0970E9C37CD8E0!497.entry She spoke with a very thick blaccent...as she screamed "C'mon B!, C'mon B! C'mon B!" (she was quite persistent with this phrase, and used the actual word) "I betta neva see yo A out eating sub sammiches eva again!".

   2006 February 8, “Drew” of Philadelphia, “The moral's I'm immortal ”, Trapper Juan, at trapperjuan.blogspot.com https://web.archive.org/web/20061027173921/http://trapperjuan.blogspot.com/2006/02/morals-im-immortal_08.html Rothlisberger...speaks with a blaccent, which in reality is not that uncommon. The problem is his inconsistency. Sometimes, he lays it on thicker than J. Will haggling at a swap meet

   The sad thing is that for many people, the blaccent connotes lack of intelligence.

   2009, John McWhorter quoted on, The World

   (Mr. McClelland notes the existence of various Midwestern “blaccents,” though he doesn’t explore them.)

   2016 December 4, Jennifer Schuessler, quoting Edward McClelland, “‘How to Speak Midwestern,’ a Heartland Dialect Guide”, in The New York Times, →ISSN