Dictionary

Czechism en · NOUN

Etymology

From Czech + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, rhetoric) A word or idiom of the Czech language (that has been borrowed by another language).
   • Examples include East Slavicisms in Polish Yiddish (and vice versa) and Czechisms in Polish and Eastern Yiddish dialects. 1987, Paul Wexler, Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics, page 168:
2. (historical, uncountable, usually) Czech nationalism.
   • They regarded Thun as the representative of "Czechism" who had placed all his cards on the convocation of a national parliament. 1980, Josef V. Polišenský, Aristocrats and the Crowd in the Revolutionary Year 1848:
   • There is unanimous feeling throughout Germany, that this Czechism ought to be put down, but it would be manifestly unjust, and consequently unwise, besides being a task beyond the power of Germany, under existing circumstances. 1848, “On the Affairs of Europe”, in Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, page 355:

Forms

Synonyms

Bohemism

Translations (2)

pl czechizm (a word or idiom of the Czech language) · pl bohemizm (a word or idiom of the Czech language)