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headlinese

noun
/ˌhɛd.laɪˈniz/UK

Etymology

From headline + -ese.

  1. derived from linea
  2. derived from ligne
  3. derived from *līno-✻
  4. inherited from *līną✻
  5. inherited from *līnǭ✻
  6. inherited from *līnā✻
  7. inherited from līne
  8. inherited from line
  9. compounded as headline — “head + line”
  10. suffixed as headlinese — “headline + -ese”

Definitions

  1. The jargon used in headlines of newspapers, often with unconventional grammar driven…

    The jargon used in headlines of newspapers, often with unconventional grammar driven mainly by extreme brevity as a constraint of the medium.

    • [Otto] Jespersen, a language professor known for his expertise in syntax and language development, stated that headlinese is not really grammatical writing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for headlinese. 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