Meaningless language

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance" [syn: hugger-mugger ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mumbo Jumbo is a 1972 novel by African-American author Ishmael Reed . Literary critic Harold Bloom cited the novel as one of the 500 most important books in the Western canon . Reed wrote a sequel, The Last Days of Louisiana Red , published in 1974.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1738, name of an idol supposedly worshipped by certain tribes in Africa; said to be a corruption of words in Mandingo (one reconstructed version is Mama Dyumbo ), but no likely source has been found in the languages of the Niger region, to which the original ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mumbo Jumbo \Mum"bo Jum"bo\, n. [Perh. fr. the native name of an African god.] Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan, a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men, one of whom assumes a masquerade for the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) A deity or other supernatural being said to have been worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol. 2 (context religion English) Any object of superstition; religious words and/or actions which are seen as superstitious ...