Etymology

double-plus-good

Today it means: Excellent; very good. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by British writer and journalist George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.