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gibberish

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gibberish (sometimes Jibberish ) is a language game or secret language similar to Pig Latin that is played in the United States , Canada and Ireland . Similar games are played in many other countries. The name Gibberish refers to the nonsensical sound of ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless n. 1 speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless. 2 Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
gibberish \gib"ber*ish\ (j[i^]b"b[~e]r*[i^]sh or g[i^]b"b[~e]r*[i^]sh), n. [From Gibber , v. i.] Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words. He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ This manual is written in computer gibberish . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is all so much gibberish . ▪ It was obviously a subject she barely grasped, because her report was, to put it kindly, gibberish . ▪ Much of the talk ...

Usage examples of gibberish.

Teldin expected the giff to use some kind of foreign gibberish, like the female had the previous night.

He crouched in the grass which his fall had flattened, and roared gibberish at Lok, who held his club at ready.

The sitreps came in about once an hour: disembodied voices crackled over the radio or the EE-8 field phones, and spoke in the Captain Midnight code-word gibberish that passes for language in the military.

Even if it was only the ingredients for snickerdoodles, still there was something potent in the feel of the gibberish coming up blood temp from his lungs, his gut, and rushing out of his mouth.

Was that single sentence tucked in among the gibberish put there to fortify and reaffirm what he had written many pages back?

The poor old woman is capable of little more than clacking her false teeth and listening to that lithomancy gibberish.

Many of them were pure gibberish, but there was some quite lovely liturgical story-telling scattered throughout, the relic, Jame believed, of an older ritual.

A bizarre and bastard concoction, made of equal parts lust and misogyny, all of it dressed up in theological gibberish.

After that followed a sharp grating noise, a shouted gibberish from Pickman, and the deafening discharge of all six chambers of a revolver, fired spectacularly as a lion tamer might fire in the air for effect.

Slipins had damped it out in favour of more conventional flight-and-fight scenarios and reconstituted gibberish from the memories of my own overlaid consciousness.

This bore regular fruit, for after the first interview the manuscript records daily calls of the young man, during which he related startling fragments of nocturnal imaginery whose burden was always some terrible Cyclopean vista of dark and dripping stone, with a subterrene voice or intelligence shouting monotonously in enigmatical sense-impacts uninscribable save as gibberish.

In desperation, Bondo had even sunk to consulting an alchemist, who filled his palace with unpleasant odors and his ears with gibberish, accomplished nothing, and demanded a purse of gold for his nugatory services.

It cometh, no doubt, from knowing Latin and other outlandish gibberish.

The rub remains: with an infinity of available enciphering keys, a meaningful string of letters can be translated into any available gibberish.

I thought at first it was another alphabet and language, something like Bengali or Gujarati, but when I looked more closely I decided it was not real writing but gibberish, like something a child scribbles, pretending to write.