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Dublinese

Dublinese proper noun: the dialect spoken in Dublin.

Proper noun

Dublinese

  1. The dialect spoken in Dublin.
    • His spicy language is both best-quality Dublinese in the style of John Joyce and that of James Joyce the accomplished parodist.1972, Hélène Cixous, The exile of James Joyce
    • When Beckett arrived one of the first surprises was his Dublin accent; but Lennon was also somewhat taken aback by the idiomatic Dublinese of his discourse...1999, Anthony Cronin, Isaac Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist

Examples of Dublinese in a sentence

  • Neighbours would strain to hear if the fast passionate arguments were being conducted in Italian or high-speed Dublinese.2002, Sarah Hartley, Mrs P's journey: the remarkable story of the woman who created the A-Z map:
  • ...he found her flat Dublinese as difficult to navigate, but by the end of that night language had lost meaning...2008, Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd:

Origin of Dublinese

From Dublin + -ese.

Questions about Dublinese

What does Dublinese mean?
Dublinese means the dialect spoken in Dublin.
How do you use Dublinese in a sentence?
Neighbours would strain to hear if the fast passionate arguments were being conducted in Italian or high-speed Dublinese.
What part of speech is Dublinese?
Dublinese is a proper noun.

Words near Dublinese in the dictionary

  1. Dublin Castle
  2. Dublin Mean Time
  3. Dublin trout
  4. Dubliner
  5. Dubliners
  6. Dublinese
  7. dubloon
  8. Dublândia
  9. Dubna
  10. Dubnica nad Váhom
  11. dubnium

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Dublinese (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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