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duckspeak (uncountable)

1. Thoughtless or formulaic speech.
   • 1989, Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony, and solidarity:

     Because his utterances detour through his brain - rather than, as in duckspeak, coming straight from the well-programmed larynx - he has Socratic doubts...

   • 2004, Joan Elizabeth Lloyd, Club Fantasy:

     I think you might just have had the courage to realize things I didn't know were there. That's really duckspeak, isn't it. I only thought I was happy.

   • 2006, Stephen Ingle, The social and political thought of George Orwell:

     They have developed a particularly obnoxious form of ungood duckspeak. 'Friendly fire' and 'collateral damage' are only the most obvious examples...

   • 2008, Richard J Alexander, Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach:

     To be sure, he provides very many juicy examples of such duckspeak or bullshit...