All vernacularism synonyms
ver·nac·u·lar·ism
V v noun vernacularism
- barbarism — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
- localism — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
- idiom — an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- catachresis — the incorrect use of words, as luxuriant for luxurious