Menckenese

noun

Menc·​ken·​ese

¦meŋkə¦nēz,

-enk-,

-ēs

plural -s

: the peculiarly vigorous racy flamboyant and often caustic style characteristic of the journalist Mencken or a style patterned on or resembling that of Mencken

difficult to read through a daily paper without finding a feature writer who employs Menckenese

—George Mayberry

Word History

Etymology

H. L. Mencken †1956 American journalist and satirist + English -ese

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