Dictionary![]() ![]() ESEeast-southeast. Also,E.S.E. -esea suffix forming adjectival derivatives of place names, esp. countries or cities; frequently used nominally to denote the inhabitants of the place or their language: Faroese; Japanese; Vietnamese; Viennese. By analogy with such language names, -ese occurs in coinages denoting in a disparaging, often facetious way a characteristic jargon, style, or accent: Brooklynese; bureaucratese; journalese; computerese. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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