Crossword clues for gobbledygook
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
gobbledegook \gobbledegook\, gobbledygook \gobbledygook\n. The incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists; as, psychoanalytic gobbledygook.
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 World War II. First used in a memo dated March 30, 1944, banning "gobbledygook language" and mock-threateaning, "anyone using the words activation or implementation will be shot." Maverick said he made up the word in imitation of turkey noise. Another word for it, coined about the same time, was bafflegab (1952).
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.
WordNet
n. incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists
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.