Definition of "vocalisms" [vocalisms]

• Plural form of vocalism. (noun)

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• "The faint air of pie-eyed 60s silliness song titles include Spider Cider and Idea for Rubber Dog and Dwyer's cartoonish vocalisms could put some off, but there's more than enough sunny, funny, manic charm to make it all work."
• "This particular solecism was greeted then with the sort of vocalisms with which spectators at the Colloseum must have used to sic the lions onto the Christians."
• "With what I've learned so far about the evolution of the Ancient Egyptian language as it evolved into Coptic, I'm going to go out on a limb and deduce for myself that the vowelless transliterated words qn and ỉkn were probably pronounced around 1500 BCE something like *qánә 'reed' and *ʔәkánә 'basin, bowl', both matching the vocalisms of the other reflexes as well as accounting for the later Coptic result."