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Meaning of eye dialect in English:

eye dialect

noun

  • (The use of) nonstandard respelling (sometimes for comic effect) to represent dialectal or colloquial pronunciation (as Aw knaow for standard I know), or standard pronunciation not predictable from regular orthography (as enuff for standard enough).

Origin

1920s; earliest use found in George Philip Krapp (1872–1934).