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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A form of speaking in which word order is altered to sound bizarre or unnatural.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Yoda, Yodaish
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Yoda + -speak (suffix denoting a manner of speech or writing typical of or characterized by the word to which it is attached), alluding to the somewhat grammatically reversed speech style of Yoda, a character in the Star Wars franchise.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
