Rusticism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A rustic custom or characteristic.

    "In Scotland, one of the purposes of a university education and rhetoric was to rid the students of their Scottish rusticisms."

  2. 2
    a rural idiom or expression wordnet

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ruralismruralism

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"In Scotland, one of the purposes of a university education and rhetoric was to rid the students of their Scottish rusticisms."

Etymology

From rustic + -ism.

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