gibberish

gibberish
n
1. jabber, Jabberwocky, chatter, prattle, cackle, gibber; babble, babblement, prate, tattle, twaddle; patter, gabble, blather; jargon, gobbledegook, nonsense, hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo, abracadabra, open-sesame; babbling, Fr. bavardage; humbug, flummery, Sl. bunk, rubbish, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. horsefeathers; balderdash, hogwash, stuff and nonsense, fudge, foolishness, rigmarole or rigamarole; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, drivel, Inf. bosh, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle; small talk, Sl. bull.
2. palaver, claptrap, rodomontade, Sl. hot air, Sl. gas, pretentious talk; wordiness, verbosity, prolixity, prolixness, verbiage, verbalism; diffuseness, profuseness, effusion, effusiveness, gushing; obfuscation, padding, redundancy, superfluous words

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  • Gibberish — is a generic term in English for talking that sounds like speech, but has no actual meaning. This meaning has also been extended to meaningless text or gobbledygook. The common theme in gibberish statements is a lack of literal sense, which can… …   Wikipedia

  • gibberish — gibberish, mummery, hocus pocus, abracadabra are comparable as terms of contempt applied to something which is in itself unintelligible or meaningless to the person concerned. They are often used interchangeably but are not true synonyms.… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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  • Gibberish — Gib ber*ish, a. Unmeaning; as, gibberish language. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • gibberish — index jargon (unintelligible language) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • gibberish — 1550s, imitative of the sound of chatter, probably influenced by JABBER (Cf. jabber). Used early 17c. of the language of rogues and gypsies …   Etymology dictionary

  • gibberish — [n] nonsense talk babble, balderdash*, blah blah*, blather, chatter, claptrap*, double talk*, drivel, gobbledygook*, hocuspocus*, jabber*, jargon, mumbo jumbo*, palaver*, prattle, scat*, twaddle*, yammer*; concept 278 Ant. sense …   New thesaurus

  • gibberish — ► NOUN ▪ unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense …   English terms dictionary

  • gibberish — [jib′ər ish] n. [< GIBBER] rapid and incoherent talk; unintelligible chatter; jargon …   English World dictionary

  • gibberish — [[t]ʤɪ̱bərɪʃ[/t]] N UNCOUNT If you describe someone s words or ideas as gibberish, you mean that they do not make any sense. When he was talking to a girl he could hardly speak, and when he did speak he talked gibberish. Syn: nonsense …   English dictionary

  • gibberish — gib|ber|ish [ˈdʒıbərıʃ] n [U] [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Probably from gibber] something you write or say that has no meaning, or is very difficult to understand = ↑nonsense ▪ You re talking gibberish ! …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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