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gobbledygook
n. writing which uses complex phrases and fancy words, vague bureaucratic jargon


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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 301944 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 211944 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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gobbledygook
Noun
1. incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists
(hypernym) jargon


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Synonyms and related words:
Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, Washingtonese, absurdity, amphigory, argot, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, bombastry, bull, bunkum, cant, cipher, claptrap, code, cryptogram, double Dutch, double-talk, drivel, drool, federalese, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gift of tongues, glossolalia, highfalutin, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jumble, lingo, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, noise, nonsense, official jargon, officialese, pack of nonsense, palaver, patois, patter, phraseology, political doubletalk, poppycock, prate, prattle, pussyfooting, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, scatology, scramble, secret language, skimble-skamble, slang, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, taboo language, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, vernacular, vocabulary, vulgar language, waffling
  

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