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Definition eye dialect in British English

eye dialect noun

noun
1

the use of nonstandard spellings, such as "enuff" for enough or "wuz" for was, to indicate that the speaker is uneducated or using colloquial, dialectal, or nonstandard speech

Definition eye dialect in British English