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-speak

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.

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Nearby words

  1. -sol,
  2. -soma,
  3. -some,
  4. -something,
  5. -sophy,
  6. -sperm,
  7. -spermal,
  8. -spermic,
  9. -spermous,
  10. -sphere
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British Dictionary definitions for -speak

-speak

suffix forming nouns

informal the language or jargon of a specific group, organization, or fieldcomputerspeak

Word Origin for -speak

C20: formed on the pattern of newspeak
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