-speak
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Language characteristic of:
有某种语言特性的：
doctorspeak; cop-speak.
医生腔调；警察腔调
语源
- From (new)speak
From (new)speak
-speak
suffix forming nouns
informal. the language or jargon of a specific group, organization, or field
⇒
computer-speak
Origin
C20: formed on the pattern of newspeak-speak
1
a combining form extracted from newspeak, (coined by George Orwell in his novel, 1984), used in the formation of compound words, usually derogatory, derisive, or facetious, that denote the style or vocabulary of a discipline, person, era, etc., as specified by the initial element:
techspeak; artspeak; nukespeak; leetspeak; geek-speak.
Related Word
- textspeak
-speaka suffix denoting the peculiar jargon of a particular business, subculture, group, or person, as in adspeak, bureauspeak, Ruddspeak.
-speak
\\\\-ˌspēk\\\\ noun combining form
architectspeak
Californiaspeak
\\\\-ˌspēk\\\\ noun combining form
ETYMOLOGY newspeak
— used to form especially nonce words denoting a particular kind of jargonarchitectspeak
Californiaspeak
-speak
combining form
- forming nouns denoting a manner of speaking, characteristic of a specified field or group表示“行话”：
-
technospeak.
词源
on the pattern of （New）speak.
1949 , etc. . [ see Newspeak]
1949 , etc. . [ see Oldspeak]
1960 K. Amis Take Girl Like You xi. 140Charlton, his creep-speak effectively silenced, had departed in protest-march style.
1966 Science 13 May 875/1 We read of ‘space speak’ on every hand. Newspapers and magazines discuss it in their science columns... The belief is that the space effort has given us, in addition to the possibility of going to the moon, a new linguistic phenomenon.
1972 College English Jan. 439 (heading) Doublespeak: dialectology in the service of Big Brother.
1980 Times 27 Feb. 14/2 Such emphasizers as undoubtedly (Ponderoso Speak: indubitably)..diminish, if they do not actually destroy the assurance of a statement.
1981 Times 28 Jan. 7/1 (heading) Haigspeak rewrites the grammar.
1981 Guardian 1 May 2/4 ‘I am very sorry that I cannot be with you today... I am most grateful and touched that you have decided to name a locomotive after me,’ it said in classic royalspeak. [ sc. a telegram]
ORIGIN: from speak verb Newspeak Oldspeak
☞ speak
-speak
\ˌspēk\ noun combining form
Etymology: newspeak (herein)
— used to form especially nonce words denoting a particular kind of jargon
< architectspeak >
< Californiaspeak >
— used to form especially nonce words denoting a particular kind of jargon
< architectspeak >
< Californiaspeak >
-speak
Suffix
- Indicates a manner of speech or writing typical of or characterized by the root term.
- adspeak, coolspeak, Eurospeak, greenspeak, sportspeak
2006, "The great Indian hope trick", The Economist (Feb. 25)- On the American side, one motive for this is usually couched in the most delicate diplomat-speak.
Etymology
Probably originally from Newspeak, coined by George Orwell in his book 1984.
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -speak