Contextualizebeta

teacherese

noun

Etymology

From teacher + -ese.

  1. inherited from techere
  2. suffixed as teacherese — “teacher + ese”

Definitions

  1. The sort of language spoken by teachers.

    • 'Troubled', the headmaster had said, presumably teacherese for the same thing.
    • This latter was a nice teacherese way of saying that Alex was hopelessly uncoordinated. It took her forever to learn to put on her underpants […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for teacherese. 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