gobbledygook
n.
writing which uses complex phrases and fancy words, vague bureaucratic jargon
Gobbledygook
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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gobbledygook
Noun
1. incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists
(hypernym) jargon
gobbledygook
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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