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{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "preacher", "3": "-ese" }, "expansion": "preacher + -ese", "name": "af" } ], "etymology_text": "From preacher + -ese.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "preacherese (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms suffixed with -ese", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 111, 122 ] ], "ref": "1976 April 26, Duncan Mitchel, “Boys and Girls Together”, in Gay Community News, page 15:", "text": "Block's tone in different passages runs the gamut from the most cloying, self-helpish pep talk to revival-tent preacherese, but is characterized throughout by intellectual murkiness and psychological jargon that will leave many a parent completely confused about what Dr. Block is talking about.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "preacherlike diction or terminology." ], "links": [ [ "preacherlike", "preacherlike" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] } ], "word": "preacherese" }
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