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clanspeak

noun
/ˈklæn.spiːk/

Etymology

From clan + -speak.

  1. derived from planta
  2. derived from plant
  3. derived from cland
  4. borrowed from clann
  5. borrowed from clann
  6. suffixed as clanspeak — “clan + speak”

Definitions

  1. The language or dialect of a certain clan.

    • Carl understood clanspeak, of course, but only someone with two independent sets of vocal chords could speak it fluently.
    • He spoke the grymjek, the clanspeak, better than Anna's own father.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for clanspeak. 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