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telegraphese

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12 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aeeeeghlprstStarts with TEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams

Word origin

From telegraph + -ese.

Used in a sentence

  • Vythilingam said: "Injection every day. Perhaps all right then." Anstruther had not been long in Malaya. He attributed this wog's clipped telegraphese to the shyness of one who meets socially a racial superior.
  • Despite the new gadgetry, these journalists are actually rediscovering telegraphese — the clipped (ideally witty) style that flourished because of word limits imposed by an earlier technology, the telegraph.

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