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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

The language or jargon of spies, or spy organizations.  2, record 1, English, - spookspeak

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, have survived attempts at what is known in spookspeak as "termination with extreme prejudice."  3, record 1, English, - spookspeak

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

This is an example of prefixation. The suffix "-speak," which forms nouns that mean the language or jargon of a specific group, organization, or field, is added to the noun "spook" (US and CAN, a spy) (Collins). The term is formed on the pattern of "newspeak" (noun, the language of bureaucrats and politicians, regarded as deliberately ambiguous and misleading; from 1984, a novel by George Orwell).  2, record 1, English, - spookspeak

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

langue des espions : terme tiré du Mini-lexique de l'espionnage, de la trahison et de la haute trahison et reproduit avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.  2, record 1, French, - langue%20des%20espions

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish