单词 | codespeak |
释义 | codespeakn. Deliberately euphemistic, ambiguous, or indirect language; jargon. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun] > deliberate prolocution1679 double-talk1948 straddling1949 double-speak1957 codespeak1987 the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by other groups indenture Englisha1568 water language1702 jockeyism1802 slum1812 Polari1846 stable-language1856 scientificism1860 water-slang1860 Oxfordish1863 galley-slang1867 pitmatic1885 commercialese1910 legalese1911 academese1917 Hollywoodese1920 businessese1921 Hollywoodism1925 trade unionese1927 advertisingese1929 officese1935 sociologese1940 Whitehallese1940 Newspeak1949 patter1949 Pentagonese1950 educationese1958 computerese1960 managementese1961 spacespeak1963 computer-speak1968 techno-jargon1972 business-speak1973 Eurospeak1975 Euro-jargon1976 technospeak1976 doctorspeak1977 corporate-speak1978 medspeak1979 mellowspeak1979 technobabble1981 teenspeak1982 management-speak1986 codespeak1987 1987 Times 7 Aug. 15/4 The American magazine, W, told me that ‘Paris is enchanted again’, which is code-speak meaning trouble for anyone over 15. 1992 Sports Illustr. 31 Aug. 69/2 He does allow that ‘we need more speed defensively’. In today's codespeak, that means more black players. 2015 J. Martin Monday's Lie 158 Someone in charge came up to me and told me that they'd gotten some information and that there was an important asset, which by that time I knew was super-secret-agent codespeak for ‘person’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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