Word Meanings - LONDONISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• LONDONISM
  A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• LONDONIZE
  To impart to a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
• LONDON
  The capital city of England. London paste , a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• LONDONER
  A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• LONDON TUFT
  The Sweet William .
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• PECULIARITY
  1. The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. Swift. 2. That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity. The smallest peculiarity of temper on manner. Macaulay. 3. Exclusive
• LONDON SMOKE
  A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.
• SPEAKING
  1. Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube. 2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness. A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which
• SPEAK
  specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sphurj to crackle, to 1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be
• SPEAKABLE
  1. Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken. Ascham. 2. Able to speak. Milton.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• FORSPEAK
  1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
• FORESPEAKING
  A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet.
• UNSPEAK
  To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. Shak.
• BESPEAK
  besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was
• HOME-SPEAKING
  Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. Milton.
• FORESPEAK
  See FORSPEAK