Duckspeak
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Thoughtless or formulaic speech. uncountable
"Because his utterances detour through his brain - rather than, as in duckspeak, coming straight from the well-programmed larynx - he has Socratic doubts..."
Example
More examples"Because his utterances detour through his brain - rather than, as in duckspeak, coming straight from the well-programmed larynx - he has Socratic doubts..."
Etymology
From duck + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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