Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

telegraphese

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tele-graph-ese
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From telegraph + -ese.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: telegraph

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does telegraphese mean?: The terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this.
Where does telegraphese come from?: From telegraph + -ese.

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