pro·vin·cial·ism /-ʃəˌlɪzəm/
鄉下習氣,方言,地方風格,土腔
Pro·vin·cial·ism n. A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
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provincialism
n 1: a lack of sophistication
2: a partiality for some particular place [syn: sectionalism,
localism]