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Birminghamese

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English

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Etymology

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From Birmingham +‎ -ese.

Adjective

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Birminghamese (comparative more Birminghamese, superlative most Birminghamese)

  1. Of or relating to the city of Birmingham, England.
    • 2001, Annette Willoughby, Innocent in Africa, Authors OnLine, →ISBN, page 201:
      Annie was no different. With her generous Birminghamese attitude, she laid out two dozen candles.

Proper noun

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Birminghamese

  1. The dialect of English language spoken in the city of Birmingham, England.
    • 1974 June, Martin D. S. Braine, “On What Might Constitute Learnable Phonology”, in Language, volume 50, number 2, →DOI, page 295:
      Such a speaker not only knows which of his words with /aː/ are rendered with /æ/ in Birmingham, but also has a general expectation that words with /aː/ in RP will have either /aː/ or /æ/ in Birminghamese, but not other vowels.