pollyspeak
English
Etymology
From pollie + -speak, with spelling shift.
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
pollyspeak (uncountable)
- (slang, Australia, derogatory) Political spin; speech used by a politician that is equivocal or mendacious.
- 2019 June 30, Harold Wood, “ANOTHER 'MADDIE' STRIKES.”, in aus.general, Usenet:
- Sure, put them as a batch/job lot with their own kind. Put them in the public gallery of any Australian parliament and force feed them ‘pollyspeak’.
- 2001, "Marc in Oz", Vote with your wallet (on newsgroup alt.politics.greens)
- It isn't difficult to make one's life meaningful without the mumbo-jumbo of pollyspeak and endless streams of words, words, words...
- 2019 March 25, i||||||||||||||||| 2.0, “Coal jobs "safe": Combet”, in aus.politics, Usenet:
- It is pollyspeak or polyspeak or doubletalk, or lies.
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Coal jobs safe = they are truly fucked now
on a quick scan I didn't see he actually said they would be safe, tahts[sic] part of the trick, say something they want to be interpreted as 'safe' but not actually say it. The[y] have years of practise, they are really good at it.
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See also
- spin doctor