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English
Examples (English words often considered buzzwords)
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Etymology
Coined in the 1970s in the United States, from
buzz + word.
Pronunciation
Noun
buzzword (plural buzzwords)
- (sometimes derogatory) A word drawn from, or imitative of, technical jargon, used more to impress others than to convey meaning.
Their salespeople know all the right buzzwords, but they can't really help you solve your problems.
1972 May 14, Marylyn Bender, “Harvard's Brahmin Radical”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:Ideology is a Lodge buzzword, as they say in business schools, the first word that sends many executives and students who would emulate them, into fury.
2018 June 19, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “Inside the Crypto World's Biggest Scandal”, in Wired, →ISSN:There is great confusion and debate about what a blockchain even is—some people argue it’s become a meaningless buzzword—but the standard definition describes a shared, decentralized, cryptographically secure, immutable digital ledger.
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word drawn from or imitative of technical jargon
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 流行詞 / 流行词 (liúxíngcí), 行話 / 行话 (zh) (hánghuà)
- Danish: modeord n
- Dutch: buzzwoord (nl) n, modewoord (nl) n
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: iskusana (fi), muotisana (fi), kapulakielinen sana
- German: Modewort (de) n, sinnentleertes Modewort n, Schlagwort (de) n, leeres Schlagwort n, abgedroschene Phrase f, Buzzword n
- Hebrew: זמזומילה f (zimzumilá)
- Hungarian: hívószó (hu), divatszó (hu), bűvszó, frázis (hu), szlogen (hu), klisé (hu)
- Icelandic: tískuorð m
- Irish: dordfhocal m
- Japanese: バズワード (bazuwādo)
- Korean: 유행어 (ko) (yuhaeng-eo)
- Polish: buzzword (pl) m
- Portuguese: buzzword (pt) m or f, palavra de efeito (pt)
- Russian: мо́дное сло́во n (módnoje slóvo)
- Spanish: palabra de moda, expresión en voga f, cantinela (es) f, clishé m
- Swedish: buzzword n
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English buzzword.
Pronunciation
Noun
buzzword f (plural buzzwords)
- buzzword (fashionable technical jargon)