Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bbc-esque

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables: bbc-esque
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of BBCesque.

Example Sentences

"At WLRN Wagner's crisp BBC-esque tone dovetails with the highbrow fare of National Public Radio."
"With this approach to broadcasting, content, production and presentation styles that emerged along the vein of a BBC-esque style produced a particular approach and thinking that had to be employed in order to conform..."
"But now that we're all so much more sophisticated, only pedantic twits insist on absolute accuracy, which isn't accuracy anyway, but some BBC-esque imaginary accuracy that comes from the department of Fake Authenticity."

Etymology

From BBC + -esque.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: BBC

Inflected Forms

more BBC-esque (comparative) most BBC-esque (superlative)

Questions

What does bbc-esque mean?: Alternative form of BBCesque.
Where does bbc-esque come from?: From BBC + -esque.

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