gobbledegook

gobbledegook
n
1. obfuscation, confusion, complexity, buzz word; educationese, computerese, academese, bureaucratese, legalese, medicalese; wordiness, verbosity, prolixity, prolixness, verbiage, verbalism; diffuseness, profuseness, profusiveness, effusion, effusiveness, gushing; redundance, redundancy, pleonasm, padding, repetition, battology.
2. circumlocution, Inf. circumbendibus, ambagiousness, periphrasis, periphrase, roundabout or indirect expression; tautology, Rare. tautologism, begging the question; shifting, dodging, equivocation, deceptiveness; ambiguity, subtlety, vagueness, indirection, quibble, quibbling; digression, excursus, rambling, winding, meandering, Archaic. ambages.
3. jargon, gibberish, nonsense, moonshine, Fr. bavar-dage; hocus-pocus, abracadabra, mumbo jumbo; humbug, flummery, Sl. bunk, rubbish, tommyrot, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. horsefeathers; balderdash, hogwash, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. Sl. tosh, fudge, foolishness, rigmarole or rigamarole; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle.

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  • gobbledegook — gobbledegook, gobbledygook gobbledygook . The incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists; as, psychoanalytic gobbledygook. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • gobbledegook — UK / US or gobbledygook UK [ˈɡɒb(ə)ldɪˌɡuːk] / US [ˈɡɑb(ə)ldɪˌɡuk] noun [uncountable] informal 1) very complicated or technical language that you cannot understand 2) nonsense …   English dictionary

  • gobbledegook — (also gobbledygook) ► NOUN informal ▪ pompous or unintelligible jargon. ORIGIN probably imitating a turkey s gobble …   English terms dictionary

  • gobbledegook — /gob euhl dee gook /, n. language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports. Also, gobbledygook. [1940 45; fanciful formation from GOBBLE2] Syn. gibberish, doubletalk, bosh,… …   Universalium

  • gobbledegook — Conglomerate, often trash. Inconsequential, incomprehensible. Your essay was gobbledegook, almost as if you pasted it up randomly from invented words …   Dictionary of american slang

  • gobbledegook — Conglomerate, often trash. Inconsequential, incomprehensible. Your essay was gobbledegook, almost as if you pasted it up randomly from invented words …   Dictionary of american slang

  • gobbledegook — /ˈgɒbldiˌgʊk / (say gobldee.gook), / ˌguk/ (say .goohk) noun Colloquial 1. any utterance or writing that the listener or reader does not understand, usually because it is in a foreign language. 2. language characterised by circumlocution and… …  

  • gobbledegook — noun see gobbledygook …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • gobbledegook — Synonyms and related words: balderdash, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, circumlocution, crap, deception, deceptiveness, double talk, drivel, equivocation, eyewash, garbage, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, humbug, jargon, malarkey, moonshine, mumbo… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • Gobbledegook — written or spoken nonsense (originally US military slang (1940s) for red tape , from the earlier slang phrase gobble the goop to perform fellatio) …   Dictionary of Australian slang

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