NOUN
- a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States
- an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US)
How To Use southernism In A Sentence
- The way he looked, like some unhinged brigand, his haircut a whacked-off Mohawk in the front and long and stringy in the back, his river rat amalgam of off-angled Brooklynese with the occasional flowery Southernism thrown in, the guy was a yat—the tag stemming from the universal greeting “Where y’at?” The Lampshade
- her speech was barren of southernisms
- This Southernism, which originally meant having the luxury of eating the highest-quality parts of the pig, now simply refers to enjoying good food in large quantities.
