eye dialect

/aɪ ˌdaɪəˈlɛkt/
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Definitions of eye dialect
  1. noun
    the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker
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    type of:
    accent, dialect, idiom
    the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
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