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autospeak

noun

Etymology

From auto- + speak.

  1. inherited from *bʰeh₂g-✻ — “to distribute”
  2. inherited from *spekan✻
  3. derived from *spreg-✻ — “to make a sound, utter, speak”
  4. inherited from *sprekaną✻ — “to speak, make a sound”
  5. inherited from *sprekan✻
  6. inherited from specan — “to speak”
  7. inherited from speke
  8. prefixed as autospeak — “auto + speak”

Definitions

  1. Thoughtless, automatic speech.

    • If management is not quite as routinised as teaching, it still involves quite a lot of autospeak when what people say follows familiar pathways.

  2. The jargon associated with motor vehicles.

    • Honk, which was autospeak for `Get out of my way'.
    • WHAT you call the Kia Rondo depends on how far you bend to the fickle winds of autospeak.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autospeak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA