Idioticon

Quick meaning: Idioticon is a noun meaning A dictionary of a specific dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country.

Meaning

A dictionary of a specific dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country.

Example Sentences

There exist in Germany several valuable Idiotica.

"Wische," says the Westerwald Idioticon, "expresses a quick movement connected with a whizzing or swishing sound."

[T]he Flemings, anxious that the dictionary would turn out to be too 'Hollandic', started collecting their own regional words for a general Flemish idioticon.

While there was a solid tradition of idioticons by that time, dialect lexicography on the other hand only developed into a more scholarly activity by the end of the century [...].

Word Forms

• idiotica
• idioticons

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eediot, ideot, idjut, idiotfest, idiotorial, cidiot.

Related Dictionary Tools