| 单词 |
officese |
| 释义 |
officese|ɒfɪˈsiːz| [f. office n. + -ese.] = commercialese.
1935A. P. Herbert in Punch 19 June 730/2 It is just the misplaced effort to ‘write like a book’, to be elegant and flowery, that yields the sickliest growths of ‘officese’ and Jungle English—all these ‘inst.'s’ and ‘ult.'s’ and ‘in regard to's’ and ‘favours’ and ‘representatives’. 1942Partridge Usage & Abusage 218/2 Commercialese or Business English (or, as A. P. Herbert calls it, Officese). 1960― Charm of Words i. 22 Commercialese..has also been called officese. |

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