English Explanatory Dictionary

duckspeak

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Thoughtless or formulaic speech.

Word forms

duckspeak

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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