colloq. [f. JOURNAL sb. + -ESE.] The style of language supposed to be characteristic of public journals; ‘newspaper’ or ‘penny-a-liner’s’ English.
1874. N. B. Daily Mail, 28 Aug., 5/6. What Reynolds’s Newspaper calls his ‘orgies,’ which is supposed to be penny-weekly journalese for sitting up late and smoking cigarettes.
1882. Pall Mall Gaz., 6 April, 2/1. Translated from ‘journalese’ into plain English it means [etc.].
1893. Athenæum, 30 Dec., 901/1. It is sad, too, to find Mr. Prothero guilty of such journalese as ‘transpired.’
1893. R. Kipling, Many Invent., 166. I … refrained from putting any journalese into it.
