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telegraphese
noun tele·graph·ese \ˌte-lə-gra-ˈfēz, -ˈfēs\
Definition of TELEGRAPHESE
: language characterized by the terseness and ellipses that are common in telegrams
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First Known Use of TELEGRAPHESE
1885
Rhymes with TELEGRAPHESE
Abdülaziz, Albigenses, Aragonese, archdiocese, Averroës, Barcelonese, bona fides, bureaucratese, cheval-de-frise, computerese, Diogenes, Dodecanese, Dutch elm disease, Egas Moniz, Eumenides, Euripides, Florida Keys, governmentese, Great Pyrenees, Hesperides, Hippocrates, Hippomenes, Indo-Chinese, kissing disease, mad cow disease, Marie-Louise, officialese, Pentagonese, Philoctetes, Sammarinese, social disease, suicide squeeze, superficies, Themistocles, Thucydides, Vietnamese
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