The story
From duck + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Thoughtless or formulaic speech. Full definition →
From duck + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.