单词 | officialese |
释义 | officialesen. The formal and typically verbose language considered characteristic of officials or official documents; turgid or pedantic official prose. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > in particular literary contexts pamphletism1716 newspaper English1856 journalese1882 officialese1884 novelese1900 headlinese1916 bureaucratese1942 1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. iii. 126 What was called, in delightful officialese, ‘the double Secretariat’ was abolished. 1924 P. MacDonald Rasp vi. 84 My—what's the officialese for it?—‘suppression of the truth’ gave Boyd clue number one. 1953 E. Simon Past Masters iv. ii. 220 One was left to infer between the lines of officialese. 1975 B. Garfield Hopscotch iii. 50 ‘You've read the backgrounding.’ It was phrased in dry officialese. 1991 K. Waterhouse English our English ii. 129 Phrases borrowed from officialese—it should be appreciated, it will be recalled that, it is important to realize that—should simply be crossed out. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1884 |
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