Usually means: Nonstandard spelling mimicking spoken language.
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  1. eye dialect: Merriam-Webster
  2. eye dialect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. eye dialect: Vocabulary.com
  4. eye dialect: Wiktionary
  5. eye dialect: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. eye dialect: Dictionary.com
  7. Eye dialect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. eye dialect: Rhymezone
  9. eye dialect: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  10. eye dialect: FreeDictionary.org
  11. eye dialect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. eye dialect: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eye dialect: A Word A Day

Definitions from Wiktionary (eye dialect)

noun:  (uncountable) Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.
noun:  (countable) A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.

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