| Noun | 1. | dialect - the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted easily-recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community eye dialect - the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker patois - a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard spang, bang - leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees" forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards - at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations) | |