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gobbledygook

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gobbledygook noun
also gobbledegook /ˈgɑːbəldiˌgʊk/
gobbledygook
noun
also gobbledegook /ˈgɑːbəldiˌgʊk/
Learner's definition of GOBBLEDYGOOK
[noncount] informal
: speech or writing that is complicated and difficult to understand复杂难懂的讲话(或文章)
BNC: 44630 COCA: 36649

gobbledygook

noun

gob·​ble·​dy·​gook ˈgä-bəl-dē-ˌgu̇k How to pronounce gobbledygook (audio)
-ˌgük
variants or less commonly gobbledegook
: wordy and generally unintelligible jargon

Example Sentences

The report is just a bunch of gobbledygook. cut through the gobbledygook and just tell me what the final cost of the car would be
Recent Examples on the Web These must be free from the buzzword infested, gobbledygook of modern mission statements. Greg Autry, Forbes, 3 July 2022 But Lisa Kudrow’s speech about the glue is complete gobbledygook—those words have nothing to do with my formula adhesive at all. Keaton Bell, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2022 Without that unique hardware identifier, the data on the drive is unreadable gobbledygook. Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2022 To most baseball fans, many of the points of contention between billionaire MLB owners and millionaire players play out on a privileged battleground, spoken in a dialect of financial gobbledygook. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2021 What followed was a Lombardi-esque screed — at least if Lombardi’s message was filtered through the Medieval English and Advanced Psychology and then saturated in ivory-tower gobbledygook. Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2021 The lack of any basic humanity in that bureaucratic gobbledygook is telling. BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021 All told, the message will look scrambled or seem like gobbledygook. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021 Bits of story eddy around him, and the vast intricate gobbledygook of inevitable multiverse developments go rushing past. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 8 June 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

irregular from gobble, noun

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gobbledygook was in 1944
BNC: 44630 COCA: 36649

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