"Lawn Guyland" meaning in English

See Lawn Guyland in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˌlɔŋ ˈɡaɪlənd/ [New-York-City], [ˌlɔəŋˈɡɑɪlənd] [New-York-City]
Etymology: A humorous exaggeration of the local dialect pronunciation of Long Island. Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Lawn Guyland}} Lawn Guyland
  1. (nonstandard, humorous) A representation of the local pronunciation of Long Island, in which word-final ⟨ng⟩ is pronounced /ŋɡ/ rather than /ŋ/. Wikipedia link: Lawn Guyland Tags: humorous, nonstandard
    Sense id: en-Lawn_Guyland-en-name-7QE1vJel Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for Lawn Guyland meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "A humorous exaggeration of the local dialect pronunciation of Long Island.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Lawn Guyland"
      },
      "expansion": "Lawn Guyland",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, William James Blake, The Copperheads, page 95",
          "text": "Trudi still had a German accent, but Liesl and Fritz were perfect New Yorkers who said bold and toid, Noo Joysey, Lawn Guyland, and were adopting youse from the Irish.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, T. C. Gardstein, Circuit, page 49",
          "text": "Dr. Roth, upon moving his family to Steppingstone Harbor two years earlier, had claimed that there would be hell to pay if Nancy and her little sister Courtney ever picked up the typical Lawn Guyland accent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, David Gordon, The Serialist: A Novel, page 327",
          "text": "I'm out in Lawn Guyland for the summer at my dad's place at the beach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ, page 11",
          "text": "Or, heaven help us, a Lawn Guyland accent—that squawking horror of a dialect that gave the Guyland its nickname!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A representation of the local pronunciation of Long Island, in which word-final ⟨ng⟩ is pronounced /ŋɡ/ rather than /ŋ/."
      ],
      "id": "en-Lawn_Guyland-en-name-7QE1vJel",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "Long Island",
          "Long Island#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard, humorous) A representation of the local pronunciation of Long Island, in which word-final ⟨ng⟩ is pronounced /ŋɡ/ rather than /ŋ/."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "nonstandard"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Lawn Guyland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌlɔŋ ˈɡaɪlənd/",
      "tags": [
        "New-York-City"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌlɔəŋˈɡɑɪlənd]",
      "tags": [
        "New-York-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Lawn Guyland"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "A humorous exaggeration of the local dialect pronunciation of Long Island.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Lawn Guyland"
      },
      "expansion": "Lawn Guyland",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nonstandard terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, William James Blake, The Copperheads, page 95",
          "text": "Trudi still had a German accent, but Liesl and Fritz were perfect New Yorkers who said bold and toid, Noo Joysey, Lawn Guyland, and were adopting youse from the Irish.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, T. C. Gardstein, Circuit, page 49",
          "text": "Dr. Roth, upon moving his family to Steppingstone Harbor two years earlier, had claimed that there would be hell to pay if Nancy and her little sister Courtney ever picked up the typical Lawn Guyland accent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, David Gordon, The Serialist: A Novel, page 327",
          "text": "I'm out in Lawn Guyland for the summer at my dad's place at the beach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ, page 11",
          "text": "Or, heaven help us, a Lawn Guyland accent—that squawking horror of a dialect that gave the Guyland its nickname!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A representation of the local pronunciation of Long Island, in which word-final ⟨ng⟩ is pronounced /ŋɡ/ rather than /ŋ/."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "Long Island",
          "Long Island#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard, humorous) A representation of the local pronunciation of Long Island, in which word-final ⟨ng⟩ is pronounced /ŋɡ/ rather than /ŋ/."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "nonstandard"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Lawn Guyland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌlɔŋ ˈɡaɪlənd/",
      "tags": [
        "New-York-City"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌlɔəŋˈɡɑɪlənd]",
      "tags": [
        "New-York-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Lawn Guyland"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.