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nonspeak

noun

Etymology

From non- + 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 nonspeak — “non- + speak”

Definitions

  1. Speech that is intended to satisfy a needed response, yet lacking in any real pertinent…

    Speech that is intended to satisfy a needed response, yet lacking in any real pertinent information; speech about nothing, empty words; useless talk or babble.

    • Most of the action reports are carefully worded statements by ship's officers who have been trained in the art of nonspeak.
    • The only possible originality advertising could claim is in technique, and even then this is doubtful; certainly never in content, which consists entirely in pseudo-speech, Orwellian non-speak.

  2. An aversion to speaking

    An aversion to speaking; speechlessness.

    • By nine, Hodson said, boys have learned to be incurious about other people; they aren't inclined to conversation; they aren't interested in discovering more about other people. They have already learned nonspeak and nonlisten.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonspeak. 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