edutain

English

Etymology

Back-formation from edutainment. In use in 1985.

Verb

edutain (third-person singular simple present edutains, present participle edutaining, simple past and past participle edutained)

1. (transitive) To educate in an entertaining manner.
   • 2003, Jane De Gay, Lizbeth Goodman, Languages of Theatre Shaped by Women: Theory and Practice, page 89:

     Voices whose work and whose expression of her work continues to inform and (in a phrase borrowed from Black performance poetry of the period) 'edutain'.

   • 2005, Farrah Gray, Fran Harris., Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out, page 163:

     Let Me "Edutain You...

   • 2008, Yale Daily News, Yale Daily News Staff, The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2008, 34th edition, page 125:

     Edutain Me / The "risk" of Deep Springs is largely up to the students' shaping.

Anagrams

• audient, auntied