lexicographese

noun

Etymology

From lexicography + -ese.

Definitions

  1. Synonym of dictionaryese (“the style of language used in dictionary definitions”).

    • In Jolly Wicked, Actually I have tried to avoid 'lexicographese', the technical formatting, abbreviations and stylised defining language favoured by dictionaries.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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