Buffyspeak

English

Etymology

Buffy +‎ -speak

Noun

Buffyspeak (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) The invented slang used by characters on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

   Synonym: Slayer Slang

   • 2006, Jennifer Ouellette, The Physics of the Buffyverse, unnumbered page:

     As one would say in Buffyspeak, soak in the irony for a moment.

   • 2007, Dear Angela: Remember My So-Called Life, page 216:

     During "The Writing for Teens and Television" symposium, in an exchange about adolescent language, Whedon readily admits, as he has done in other interviews, that Buffyspeak was his creation and not intended to be mimetic.

   • 2008, Diana Bianchi, “Taming teen-language: The adaptation of Buffyspeak into Italian”, in Delia Chiaro, Christine Heiss, Chiara Bucaria, editors, Between Text and Image: Updating Research in Screen Translation, page 187:

     The linguistic distinctiveness of Buffyspeak is not reproduced in the Italian version, where teenagers' speech style is, at most, characterized by an informality which does not have any particular connotation as 'youth language.'

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Buffyspeak.
2. A form of dialog in televised fiction, characterized by the use of vague slang and neologisms.

   Synonym: Whedonspeak

   • 2012, N. Edward Matavka, Ronald Hubbard, Rolf Krause, Study: Wearing One's Hat, page 127:

     Jargon applies to things which would not be able to be described otherwise, except through Buffyspeak; in contrast, double-speak attempts to make things look better than they really are, and to hide the truth.