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单词 time-ese
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Time-eseadj.n.

Brit. /tʌɪˈmiːz/, U.S. /ˌtaɪˈmiz/
Forms: 1900s– Time-ese, 1900s– Timese; also with lower-case initial.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Time , -ese suffix.
Etymology: < Time, the name of a U.S. magazine + -ese suffix.
A. adj.
Characteristic or reminiscent of Time magazine, esp. in respect of its prose style.The magazine was founded in 1923; by the mid 20th century it had developed a distinctive style, sometimes considered as characterized by convoluted syntax and the prolific use of wordplay.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > other specific style
judicial1532
heroic1590
judiciary1603
wild1645
heroi-comic1708
mock-heroic1708
heroi-comical1712
flebilea1734
prosai-comi-epic1749
lusory1779
sulphureous1791
harlequinic1804
mock-heroical1825
newspaperish1825
marmoreal1892
kailyard1895
freestyle1906
paperback1921
nouny1926
Time-ese1947
nounal1952
kitchen sink1959
effectist1961
writerly1974
dirty realist1984
1947 H. L. Bird This Fascinating Advertising Business iv. xxv. 353 Tide..has..a range of articles..departmentalized much after the fashion of its parent, although not attempting Timese phraseology.
1960 College Eng. 21 403/2 I would demand quotation marks around ‘run-of-the-slope skiers’ in the following typically Timese sentence.
2000 T. Smith Little Gray Men 167 Time magazine called it [sc. Forbidden Planet] ‘nifty’ and added in typically inscrutable Time-ese fashion, ‘The special effects should convince any wavering space cadet that it's ether or.’
B. n.
Writing or language considered to be typical or reminiscent of Time magazine.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > other specific styles
mock-heroica1668
far-fetch1813
periodicalism1837
pastoralism1842
book-speech1852
nounism1904
regionalism1909
Time-ese1952
kitchen-sinkery1964
nukespeak1979
1952 O. Prescott In My Opinion x. 150 A ‘quickie’ written in the worst excesses of Timese (then more flagrant than it has since become with age and mellowing), this was a hasty account of war in the Philippines.
1958 C. Logue in Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. p. xxiii/1 They can model their syntax on the new ‘international-English’ style—a compound of Hemingway and Time-ese.
1997 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Apr. (Mag.) w4 The previous sentence is an example of a language known as Time-ese, after Time magazine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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