Oldspeak

English

Etymology

From old +‎ speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Proper noun

Oldspeak

  1. (fiction) Synonym of Standard English.
    • 2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet‎[1]:
      Newspeak words are divided into three classes, A for words denoting functional concepts of everyday life like eating, and sleeping, preserving many Oldspeak words.

Noun

Oldspeak (usually uncountable, plural Oldspeaks)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of oldspeak.
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