edu-babble

noun

Etymology

Blend of education + babble.

  1. derived from *baba-
  2. derived from *bʰa-bʰa-
  3. inherited from *babalōną
  4. inherited from *bablōn
  5. inherited from *bæblian
  6. inherited from babelen
  7. compounded as edu-babble — “education + babble

Definitions

  1. Jargon on educational topics

    Jargon on educational topics; writing or speech containing a large amount of education jargon.

    • Already notorious for edubabble, officials may have hit new depths with a four-page progress report used by the St. Louis public schools.
    • Overwhelmed teachers yearn to escape the edu-babble of conflicting and unworkable policy directives
    • These terms, this way of talking, is what we like to refer to as “Edu-babble.” Orwell liked to call it doublespeak. Edu-babble is just that, with some hip catchphrases attached. And by hip I mean impractical.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for edu-babble. 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