Cosmospeak

English

Etymology

Cosmo +‎ -speak

Noun

Cosmospeak (uncountable)

1. The characteristic jargon and copy style of Cosmopolitan magazine.
   • 1974 August 11, Stephanie Harrington, “Ms. versus Cosmo”, in The New York Times:

     Cosmopolitan, the magazine that goes on and on asking women in italicized Cosmospeak: “Don't you just love loving men, and don't you feel just miserable when you don't have a man to love, and wouldn't you love to learn how to love them better, and without fear or guilt and—best of all—to get the right one to love you?”

   • 1989 March 14, Moira Bailey, “Bachelor No. 1 Faces Dating Game's Toughest Questions”, in The Orlando Sentinel:

     Granted, these living Love Magnets must meet tough criteria. They must be good-looking, "self-made men" (that's Cosmospeak for "a nice bank account").

   • 1995 September 19, “Power-dressing of party apparat-chick”, in The Herald, Scotland:

     She is also one of the stars of a politics spread in Cosmopolitan. In Cosmospeak, Clare, left, is an apparat-chick, a party girl, one of a new generation of young people who have embraced politics because they are tired of the way the aforementioned suits are ruining the country.