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plain speech

noun

Definitions

  1. A distinctive Quaker dialect of English, reformed on religious grounds and characterized…

    A distinctive Quaker dialect of English, reformed on religious grounds and characterized by features such as use of the pronoun “thou” and numerical names for months and days of the week.

    • Another element of the “plain speech” is the use of such terms as “farewell” for “good day”—which is declared to be untruthful on bad days!

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see plain, speech.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for plain speech. 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