Winese

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of winespeak. rare, uncountable

    "When a customer comes in and they know they like wine, they know they want to have a red wine, you can't start jammering on in winese. At a lot of restaurants in the past, there was a lot of this pretense, people speaking to impress their guests rather than to inform them."

Example

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"When a customer comes in and they know they like wine, they know they want to have a red wine, you can't start jammering on in winese. At a lot of restaurants in the past, there was a lot of this pretense, people speaking to impress their guests rather than to inform them."

Etymology

From wine + -ese.

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