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winese en · NOUN

Etymology

From wine + -ese.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Synonym of winespeak.
    • When a customer comes in and they know they like wine, they know they want to have a red wine, you can't start jammering on in winese. At a lot of restaurants in the past, there was a lot of this pretense, people speaking to impress their guests rather than to inform them. 1995, Wine & Spirits, volume 14, page 42:

Synonyms

winespeak