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Ebonic

Ebonic

See also: ebonic

English

Adjective

Ebonic (not comparable)

  1. Being or pertaining to Ebonics.
    • 1994, Steven Gregory, Roger Sanjek, Race
      Still, denial persists regarding the existence and sociolinguistic vitality of Ebonic language varieties.
    • 1998, Vincent D'Oyley, Carl James, Re/visioning
      ...so that ebonic speakers use a morphology akin to the grammatical structure of the Niger-Kordofanian family.
    • 2006, Amy Plantinga Pauw, Serene Jones, Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics
      ...simply uttering, muttering, humming, and hawing incomprehensible ebonic sounds.

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ebonic

ebonic

See also: Ebonic

English

Adjective

ebonic (comparative more ebonic, superlative most ebonic)

  1. Alternative form of Ebonic
    • 2007, William Cobb, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic (page 153)
      On the thick, menacing, and eminently jeepable “We Don't Care,” Pun trades verses with fellow Terror Squad initiate Cuban Link and the duo put on an ebonic poetry clinic.