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Definition of Briticism in English: Briticism(also Britishism) noun ˈbrɪtɪsɪz(ə)mˈbrɪdəˌsɪzəm An idiom used in Britain but not in other English-speaking countries. 英国人特用的习语；英国用语 ‘toy boy’ is a Briticism for a ‘gigolo’ Example sentencesExamples - This article chronicles some of these differences, although some of the proclaimed Briticisms here don't seem so British to me at all.
- Scholars of English in the US are as inclined to point out Briticisms as their colleagues in the UK are to point out Americanisms.
- He comes from a party, he says, ‘that lost four elections on the trot’ (a wonderful Britishism for ‘in a row’).
- I got a new camera - a proper camera as the English would say (that's my favorite Briticism: proper).
- Accordingly, I made a conscious effort to avoid overdoing the unfamiliar Briticisms and obscure pop-cultural references, providing explanations and links whenever they were needed.
- A reader who knows put me right: ‘one-off is a Britishism that means single or one-time.’
- More open to interpretation is ‘off one's own bat ’, which certainly originates from cricket, but is not always marked as a Briticism in American dictionaries.
- She's reading an Ian McEwan book for school, and I have to help her with its Britishisms.
- Co-workers of state employee Alice Meredith say that since a one-week trip to England last month, her use of Britishisms has become an annoyance.
- And while you're about it, give a thought to other delightful Britishisms that have roots in Indian words: mulligatawny soup, Old Blighty, tickety-boo, going doolally…
- Specialism must be a Britishism, I told myself.
- The simulation is perfectly fluent; the program even writes in Britishisms: maths, programme, telly, labour.
OriginMid 19th century: from British, on the pattern of words such as Gallicism. Definition of Briticism in US English: Briticism(also Britishism) nounˈbridəˌsizəmˈbrɪdəˌsɪzəm An idiom used in Britain but not in other English-speaking countries. 英国人特用的习语；英国用语 “toy boy” is a Briticism for a “gigolo” Example sentencesExamples - Specialism must be a Britishism, I told myself.
- More open to interpretation is ‘off one's own bat ’, which certainly originates from cricket, but is not always marked as a Briticism in American dictionaries.
- I got a new camera - a proper camera as the English would say (that's my favorite Briticism: proper).
- He comes from a party, he says, ‘that lost four elections on the trot’ (a wonderful Britishism for ‘in a row’).
- Accordingly, I made a conscious effort to avoid overdoing the unfamiliar Briticisms and obscure pop-cultural references, providing explanations and links whenever they were needed.
- And while you're about it, give a thought to other delightful Britishisms that have roots in Indian words: mulligatawny soup, Old Blighty, tickety-boo, going doolally…
- Co-workers of state employee Alice Meredith say that since a one-week trip to England last month, her use of Britishisms has become an annoyance.
- The simulation is perfectly fluent; the program even writes in Britishisms: maths, programme, telly, labour.
- Scholars of English in the US are as inclined to point out Briticisms as their colleagues in the UK are to point out Americanisms.
- This article chronicles some of these differences, although some of the proclaimed Briticisms here don't seem so British to me at all.
- She's reading an Ian McEwan book for school, and I have to help her with its Britishisms.
- A reader who knows put me right: ‘one-off is a Britishism that means single or one-time.’
OriginMid 19th century: from British, on the pattern of words such as Gallicism. |