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Definition of Gobbledygook
1. Noun. Incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists.
Definition of Gobbledygook
1. Noun. (informal) Nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language. ¹
2. Noun. (informal) Something written in an overly complex, incoherent, or incomprehensible manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gobbledygook
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gobbledygook
Literary usage of Gobbledygook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prevention Plus II: Tools for Creating and Sustaining Drug-Free Communities (1994)
"Interviewers want colorful language, not bureaucratic gobbledygook. The more
informal, the better. If an answer must be technical to be accurate (and there ..."
2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... Bright Lights, Big City, 1984 I don't know whether or not you are a writer of
gobbledygook —Bailey 1984 The option of omitting or not only exists when ..."
3. Cleaning Up the Superfund Program: Hearing Before the Committee on edited by David M. McIntosh (1999)
"... to these sites think, when they have to figure out how to work their way
through this morass of gobbledygook in order to clean up their communities. ..."
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