plain speech
noun1
Quakerism A distinctive Quaker dialect of English, reformed on religious grounds and characterized by features such as use of the pronoun “thou” and numerical names for months and days of the week.
- Another element of the “plain speech” is the use of such terms as “farewell” for “good day”—which is declared to be untruthful on bad days!1907, Warren Hugh Wilson, Quaker Hill: A Sociological Study, page 35:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see plain, speech.
- Related terms
- plain dress