Gobbledygook or gobbledegook (sometimes shortened to gobbledegoo) is an
English term used to describe
nonsensical language, sound that resembles language but has no meaning, or unintelligible
encrypted text. It is also used to refer to official, professional or pretentious language. The term was coined on
March 30,
1944 by
Maury Maverick, chairman of the United States Smaller War Plants Corporation. In a
memo banning "gobbledygook language", he wrote "anyone using the words activation or implementation will be shot". Maverick later used the word in the
New York Times Magazine on
May 21,
1944 as part of a further complaint against the obscure language used by his colleagues. His inspiration, he said, was the
turkey, "always gobbledy gobbling and strutting with ludicrous pomposity. At the end of his gobble, there was a sort of gook."
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confusing statements, jargon, political language There was a lot of bafflegab in the speech, a lot of nonsense.