单词 | foreignism |
释义 | foreignism|ˈfɒrɪnɪz(ə)m| [f. as prec. + -ism.] 1. The imitation of what is foreign.
1879Sir G. Scott Recollect. v. 202, In my essays..I do not recollect any tendency to foreignism. 1892Review of Rev. Aug. 165 Journalists in the German language encourage foreignism. 2. An idiom, phrase, or term of foreign origin.
1877Congregationalist (U.S.) 15 Aug. (Cent.), That he [Miles Coverdale] left in his Bible some few foreignisms..is not surprising. 1887L. Swinburne in Scribner's Mag. II. 508 It is astonishing, indeed, how many of these foreignisms have crept into the common speech. |

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