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gobbledygook
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
gobbledegook \gobbledegook\, gobbledygook \gobbledygook\n. The incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists; as, psychoanalytic gobbledygook.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I can't understand all this legal gobbledygook . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The extract reads as gobbledygook if it is read as a speech by one individual. ▪ The following is the key paragraph from the barrowload of civil service-drafted ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also gobbledegook , "the overinvolved, pompous talk of officialdom" [Klein], 1944, American English, first used by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick, D.-Texas, (1895-1954), a grandson of the original maverick and chairman of U.S. Smaller War Plants Corporation during ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context informal English) nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language. 2 (context informal English) Something written in an overly complex, incoherent, or incomprehensible manner.
Usage examples of gobbledygook.
One of the things I have maintained is that you have adopted the gobbledygook that communism is merely a political party, not a conspiracy.
I have been reading in every left-wing paper the same type of gobbledygook that I find in your speeches talking about the barbarism of the committees, the same Salem witch-hunts.
All gobbledygook to Harris, as he watched the men shuffling to their stations.
This was just gobbledygook but it represented some unknown power source that was useful, versatile, speedy, and compact--like the as-yet uninvented computer.
Its treatises were mostly rhetorical gobbledygook that provided little basis for concrete action.
This absurd and confusing gobbledygook comes from his failure to see that head and tail go together: they are all one cat.
How I hate this journalese gobbledygook that soldiers and scientists love so much.
To me, most of the exchanges were medical gobbledygook, but I translated enough to comprehend that what they were seeing through their ophthalmoscopes was most unusual.
For several seconds there is spinning, words, numbers, gobbledygook amassing on the screen.
Kindly disregard the gobbledygook of how they became the first bloodsuckers on the face of the earth.
As far as the committee was concerned, his equations made just as much sense as Al's gobbledygook, and the flip chart was too small anyway.
The other twin nodded, spoke gobbledygook, looked at Gonzales through a mask of intense sorrow, as if on the verge of shedding endless tears.