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mallspeak

noun

Etymology

From mall + speak.

  1. inherited from *bʰeh₂g-✻ — “to distribute”
  2. inherited from *spekan✻
  3. derived from *spreg-✻ — “to make a sound, utter, speak”
  4. inherited from *sprekaną✻ — “to speak, make a sound”
  5. inherited from *sprekan✻
  6. inherited from specan — “to speak”
  7. inherited from speke
  8. compounded as mallspeak — “mall + speak”

Definitions

  1. A form of language, practiced by the young, in which generalized modifiers (especially…

    A form of language, practiced by the young, in which generalized modifiers (especially like and the form be like) are interspersed, often seemingly at random.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mallspeak. 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