edu-babble
nounEtymology
Blend of education + babble.
- derived from *baba-✻
- derived from *bʰa-bʰa-✻
- inherited from *babalōną✻
- inherited from *bablōn✻
- inherited from *bæblian✻
- inherited from babelen
Definitions
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