-speak

a combining form extracted from newspeak, used in the formation of compound words, usually derogatory, that denote the style or vocabulary of a discipline, person, era, etc., as specified by the initial element: adspeak; artspeak; futurespeak.

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-speak

—*suffix forming nouns*
	informal the language or jargon of a specific group, organization, or field: computerspeak

[C20: formed on the pattern of newspeak]

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"Some of us who sit upon this platform have many a time been clamored down, and told that we had no right to speak, and that we were out of our place in public meetings; far be it from us, when women assemble, and a man has a thought in his soul, burning for utterance, to retaliate upon him."

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