"geekspeak" meaning in All languages combined

See geekspeak on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ɡiːk.spiːk/
enPR: gēkspēk Etymology: From geek + -speak. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|geek|speak}} geek + -speak Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} geekspeak (uncountable)
  1. (colloquial) A type of slang used by geeks, especially computer geeks. It incorporates several terms derived from science fiction, as well as neologisms and grammar quirks, and is frequently found in combination with computer jargon. Tags: colloquial, uncountable Categories (topical): Jargon Synonyms: nerdspeak Coordinate_terms: chatspeak, fanspeak, leetspeak, netspeak, technobabble
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "geek",
        "3": "speak"
      },
      "expansion": "geek + -speak",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From geek + -speak.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "geekspeak (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -speak",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Jargon",
          "orig": "en:Jargon",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "chatspeak"
        },
        {
          "word": "fanspeak"
        },
        {
          "word": "leetspeak"
        },
        {
          "word": "netspeak"
        },
        {
          "word": "technobabble"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 31, Kara Swisher, “Goodbye, Twitter Trump! And Other Predictions for 2021”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Most of his tweets are now labeled “disputed” by Twitter, which I would translate from geekspeak as a polite way of calling them lies.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of slang used by geeks, especially computer geeks. It incorporates several terms derived from science fiction, as well as neologisms and grammar quirks, and is frequently found in combination with computer jargon."
      ],
      "id": "en-geekspeak-en-noun-rc3oshBI",
      "links": [
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "geeks",
          "geeks"
        ],
        [
          "computer",
          "computer"
        ],
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "neologism",
          "neologism"
        ],
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "quirks",
          "quirks"
        ],
        [
          "jargon",
          "jargon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) A type of slang used by geeks, especially computer geeks. It incorporates several terms derived from science fiction, as well as neologisms and grammar quirks, and is frequently found in combination with computer jargon."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nerdspeak"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡiːk.spiːk/"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "gēkspēk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "geekspeak"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "chatspeak"
    },
    {
      "word": "fanspeak"
    },
    {
      "word": "leetspeak"
    },
    {
      "word": "netspeak"
    },
    {
      "word": "technobabble"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "geek",
        "3": "speak"
      },
      "expansion": "geek + -speak",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From geek + -speak.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "geekspeak (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -speak",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Jargon"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 31, Kara Swisher, “Goodbye, Twitter Trump! And Other Predictions for 2021”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Most of his tweets are now labeled “disputed” by Twitter, which I would translate from geekspeak as a polite way of calling them lies.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of slang used by geeks, especially computer geeks. It incorporates several terms derived from science fiction, as well as neologisms and grammar quirks, and is frequently found in combination with computer jargon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "geeks",
          "geeks"
        ],
        [
          "computer",
          "computer"
        ],
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "neologism",
          "neologism"
        ],
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "quirks",
          "quirks"
        ],
        [
          "jargon",
          "jargon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) A type of slang used by geeks, especially computer geeks. It incorporates several terms derived from science fiction, as well as neologisms and grammar quirks, and is frequently found in combination with computer jargon."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nerdspeak"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡiːk.spiːk/"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "gēkspēk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "geekspeak"
}

Download raw JSONL data for geekspeak meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.