thick accent
Strong regional pronunciation
A thick accent is a way of speaking that strongly marks the speaker as from a particular region or language background.
The modifier thick suggests the accent is pronounced enough to be immediately noticeable and possibly difficult to understand: His thick Scottish accent made the dialogue hard to follow.
The phrase often implies the speaker learned English as a second language or comes from a dialect region distant from the listener's own.
- brogueAccent or sturdy shoe
- drawlUnhurried, elongated speech pattern
- twangSharp vibrating sound
- liltRhythmic speech quality
- foreignFrom another nation
pronunciation · dialect · slur · speech · guttural · rolling · heavy · unintelligible · language barrier · native · native speaker · tongue · mother tongue · speaking · immigrant · first generation · old country · voice
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- speech soundsvowel, diphthong, nasal, monophthong, vocal folds