edu-babble
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Jargon on educational topics; writing or speech containing a large amount of education jargon.
Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Already notorious for edubabble, officials may have hit new depths with a four-page progress report used by the St. Louis public schools."
- "Overwhelmed teachers yearn to escape the edu-babble of conflicting and unworkable policy directives"
- "These terms, this way of talking, is what we like to refer to as “Edu-babble.” Orwell liked to call it doublespeak. Edu-babble is just that, with some hip catchphrases attached. And by hip I mean impractical."