"-speak" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably originally from Newspeak, coined by George Orwell in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "-speak (noun-forming suffix, uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "-speak"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using catfix",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              187,
              193
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2026 January 26, Amy Hawkins, “Fate of China’s top general more likely to do with power struggle than corruption”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2026:",
          "text": "But on Saturday, China’s defence ministry announced that Zhang and Liu Zhenli, another CMC member, were under investigation for “suspected serious violations of discipline and law”, party-speak for corruption.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Indicates a manner of speech or writing typical of or characterized by the root term."
      ],
      "id": "en--speak-en-suffix-kXCzaDuF",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "-ese"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "George Orwell",
        "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "spēk′"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˌspiːk/",
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "India",
        "New-Zealand",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˌspik/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American",
        "Scotland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːk"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "speak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-speak"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably originally from Newspeak, coined by George Orwell in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "-speak (noun-forming suffix, uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "-speak"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English noun-forming suffixes",
        "English suffixes",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages using catfix",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/iːk",
        "Rhymes:English/iːk/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              187,
              193
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2026 January 26, Amy Hawkins, “Fate of China’s top general more likely to do with power struggle than corruption”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2026:",
          "text": "But on Saturday, China’s defence ministry announced that Zhang and Liu Zhenli, another CMC member, were under investigation for “suspected serious violations of discipline and law”, party-speak for corruption.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Indicates a manner of speech or writing typical of or characterized by the root term."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "-ese"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "George Orwell",
        "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "spēk′"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˌspiːk/",
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "India",
        "New-Zealand",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˌspik/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American",
        "Scotland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːk"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "speak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-speak"
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: noun-forming suffix",
  "path": [
    "-speak"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "-speak",
  "trace": ""
}