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Dublinese en · PROPN

Etymology

From Dublin + -ese.

Meanings

  1. The dialect spoken in Dublin.
    • His spicy language is both best-quality Dublinese in the style of John Joyce and that of James Joyce the accomplished parodist. 1972, Hélène Cixous, The exile of James Joyce:
    • ...he found her flat Dublinese as difficult to navigate, but by the end of that night language had lost meaning... 2008, Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd:
    • Neighbours would strain to hear if the fast passionate arguments were being conducted in Italian or high-speed Dublinese. 2002, Sarah Hartley, Mrs P's journey: the remarkable story of the woman who created the A-Z map:
    • When Beckett arrived one of the first surprises was his Dublin accent; but Lennon was also somewhat taken aback by the idiomatic Dublinese of his discourse... 1999, Anthony Cronin, Isaac Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist: