Etymology

duckspeak

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Today it means: Thoughtless or formulaic speech. Full definition →

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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.