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Googlish en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree English google English Google Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English Googlish From Google + -ish.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, informal) Resembling or in the manner of Google.
    • "Innovation" has become a key word in journalism education, as schools attempt to create a Googlish culture that provides students with the ability to create their own platforms, technologies, and techniques for journalistic reporting and storytelling. 2017, Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control:
    • This is the Googlish way to do directory services.

Forms

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Synonyms

Googley

Googlish en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

Blend of Google + English.

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncountable) The result of translating foreign-language text via any of various popular web-translation engines.
  2. (informal, uncountable) A notional language, not quite identical to English, resembling the result of such translation.
    • One of our Austrian readers who speaks and writes excellent English has translated the German, and placed it here, if the Googlish translation is doing your brain in. 2003 June 15, “SCO's evidence unveiled?”, in The Inquirer: