reviewerese

noun

Etymology

From reviewer + -ese.

  1. derived from revideō
  2. derived from reveue
  3. inherited from revewe
  4. suffixed as reviewer — “review + er
  5. suffixed as reviewerese — “reviewer + ese

Definitions

  1. The form of language used by a reviewer (of books, restaurants etc)

    • If that wasn't bad enough for the harmless browser, there's that "reviewerese" to negotiate:

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reviewerese. 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