Mancunianism

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English

Etymology

From Mancunian +‎ -ism.

Noun

Mancunianism (plural Mancunianisms)

  1. A word or phrase characteristic of the city of Manchester or the Mancunian dialect.
    • 1974, Steven Marcus, Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 20:
      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.
    • 2009 December 30, Prai Jei, “Re: bad word?”, in sci.lang (Usenet):
      Surely there were *male* borogoves too? Never heard of mimsy meaning that down yere in Kairdiff, perhaps it's a Mancunianism.
    • 2016, Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp, London: Michael Joseph, published 2017, →ISBN, page 30:
      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.