Definition of "eddication" [eddication]

• Eye dialect spelling of education. (noun)

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• "Say, Doctor, is that what you call eddication, eh?"
• "He had little "eddication," could hardly read, and was therefore greatly impressed with the value of "book larnin '," and determined that his own children should have the "best that money could git in that line," which probably meant that they should read fluently."
• "Thomas Lincoln had no use for "eddication," as he called it."