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单词 Cosmospeak
释义

Cosmospeak

English

Etymology

Cosmo + -speak

Noun

Cosmospeak (uncountable)

  1. The characteristic jargon and copy style of Cosmopolitan magazine.
    • 1974, Stephanie Harrington, "Ms. versus Cosmo", The New York Times, 11 August 1974:
      Cosmopolitan, the magazine that goes on and on asking women in italicized Cosmospeak: “Don't you just love loving men, and don't you feel just miserable when you don't have a man to love, and wouldn't you love to learn how to love them better, and without fear or guilt and—best of all—to get the right one to love you?”
    • 1989, Moira Bailey, "Bachelor No. 1 Faces Dating Game's Toughest Questions", The Orlando Sentinel, 14 March 1989:
      Granted, these living Love Magnets must meet tough criteria. They must be good-looking, "self-made men" (that's Cosmospeak for "a nice bank account").
    • 1995, "Power-dressing of party apparat-chick", The Herald (Scotland), 19 September 1995:
      She is also one of the stars of a politics spread in Cosmopolitan. In Cosmospeak, Clare, left, is an apparat-chick, a party girl, one of a new generation of young people who have embraced politics because they are tired of the way the aforementioned suits are ruining the country.
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