Crossword clues for gibberish
gibberish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.]
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Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words.
He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know.
--Drayton.Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.
--Hawthorne. Incomprehensible, obscure, or pretentious technical talk or writing; excessively obscure jargon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, imitative of the sound of chatter, probably influenced by jabber. Used early 17c. of the language of rogues and gypsies.
Wiktionary
a. unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless n. 1 speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless. 2 Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
WordNet
n. unintelligible talking [syn: gibber]
Wikipedia
Gibberish or Jibberish and gobbledygook refer to speech or other use of language that is nonsense, or that appears to be nonsense. It may include speech sounds that are not actual words, or forms such as language games or highly specialized jargon that seems non-sensical to outsiders. Gibberish should not be confused with literary nonsense such as that used in the poem " Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll.
The word gibberish is more commonly applied to informal speech, while gobbledygook (sometimes gobbledegook, gobbledigook or gobbledegoo) is more often applied to writing. " Officialese", " legalese", or "bureaucratese" are forms of gobbledygook. The related word jibber-jabber refers to rapid talk that is difficult to understand.
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 words spoken according to the rules of this game.
"Gibberish" is a song by American singer, MAX. The song was relseased as a single on March 23, 2015. It features the vocals of Hoodie Allen. The music video for the song was relseased on the same day. It has over 16 million views, as of August 2016. The song was featured on the #1 dance game, Just Dance 2016, as announced on summer of 2015. The song is so far MAX's most successful single to this date, with Gibberish peaking number one on Twitter Trending 140 and his long song to make it on the iTunes Charts as well. The song was put on MAX's EP, 'Ms. Anonymous', and soon put to his studio album, 'Hell's Kitchen Angel'. The song was also nominated for an 'Ardy' at the Radio Disney Music Awards ( 2016), it was nominated for Best Song To Lip Sync To.
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.