duckspeak

noun

duckspeak

noun

Etymology From duck + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

1

Thoughtless or formulaic speech.

Because his utterances detour through his brain - rather than, as in duckspeak, coming straight from the well-programmed larynx - he has Socratic doubts...1989, Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony, and solidarity:
I think you might just have had the courage to realize things I didn't know were there. That's really duckspeak, isn't it. I only thought I was happy.2004, Joan Elizabeth Lloyd, Club Fantasy:

2 more examples

They have developed a particularly obnoxious form of ungood duckspeak. 'Friendly fire' and 'collateral damage' are only the most obvious examples...2006, Stephen Ingle, The social and political thought of George Orwell:
To be sure, he provides very many juicy examples of such duckspeak or bullshit...2008, Richard J Alexander, Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach:

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