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glottal-stopped en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Pronounced with a glottal stop; characterised by the use of glottal stops.
    • And in a heavy London Cockney "That's all right, isn't it?" becomes "aess aw roy? ni?" with both the "t" in "right" and "it" glottal stopped. 2004, Acting with the Voice, page 56:
    • Throughout Back to Black, her glottal-stopped London accent eerily combines with a Motown swing in the phrasing, each element undercutting and enhancing the other to make a smooth-rough-smooth sound that’s classic and yet also speaks of its particular moment. 2015, Lidija Haas, “You don't mean dick to me”, in London Review of Books, volume 37, number 14:

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more glottal-stopped Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most glottal-stopped Degree=Sup lexicographic