|meŋkə|nēz, -enk-, -ēs noun
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: H. L. Mencken died 1956 American journalist and satirist + English -ese
: the peculiarly vigorous racy flamboyant and often caustic style characteristic of the journalist Mencken or a style patterned on or resembling that of Mencken
difficult to read through a daily paper without finding a feature writer who employs Menckenese — George Mayberry