studentese
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1998 Fall, Paul Trout, "Deconstructing an Evaluation Form", in The Montana Professor, Vol. 8, No. 3, How often I've heard students huff, "You're never in!" which means, translated from studentese, "I stopped by your office a couple of times but you weren't in.""
Etymology
Etymology tree English student Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English studentese From student + -ese.