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gobbledygook orig. U.S.|ˈgɒb(ə)ldɪˌgʊk, -ˌguːk|
Also gobbledegook.
[Prob. repr. a turkey-cock's gobble.]
Official, professional, or pretentious verbiage or jargon.
1944Amer. N. & Q. Apr. 9/1 Gobbledygook talk: Maury Maverick's name for the long high-sounding words of Washington's red-tape language. 1944M. Maverick in N.Y. Times Mag. 21 May 11/1 Just before Pearl Harbor, I..got my baptism under ‘gobbledygook’..its definition: talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved, usually with Latinized words. It is also talk or writing which is merely long. 1945Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News 7 Aug. 4/3 The explanations sound like gobbledegook to me. 1947Time 7 July 7/1 The Veterans Administration translated its bureaucratic gobbledygook. 1950‘S. Ransome’ Deadly Miss Ashley ii. 16 It now seemed a tricked-up system of gobbledegook wherein justice had foundered. 1951Wodehouse Old Reliable vii. 94 You insult my intelligence by trying to put gobbledy-gook like that over me. 1959M. Dolinsky There is no Silence i. 5, I had been subjected to too much psychiatric gobbledygook. 1968M. Black Labyrinth of Lang. vi. 124 Jargon (or ‘gobbledygook’, to use the more expressive term). |