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单词 bafflegab
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Definition of bafflegab in English:

bafflegab

nounˈbaf(ə)lɡabˈbafəlˌɡab
mass nounNorth American informal
  • Incomprehensible or pretentious verbiage, especially bureaucratic jargon.

    the smooth chairman who had elevated bafflegab to an art form
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We were discussing the Reflections document and the ecclesial bafflegab of which it is composed.
    • It's bafflegab for talk, more talk, and even more talk; committee meetings, First Ministers' meetings, regularly scheduled meetings with the Prime Minister's Office.
    • Aquarium's plans to expand are awash in park board bafflegab.
    • But Netser was quick to pick up on the bafflegab.
    • To test whether such bafflegab also pays in print, Armstrong asked 20 management. professors to rank the academic prestige of 10 management journals.
    • ‘It is through such bafflegab that bureaucracies attempt to avoid responsibility and bureaucrats seek anonymity,’ he said.
    • Such a word-by-word translation may seem weird bafflegab, but is renders the different grammar structure in your target language transparent.
    • There was a lot of bafflegab in the speech, a lot of nonsense.
    • Climatologists' protests drowned in a sea of environmentalist bafflegab.
    • For some, ‘information theory’ is simply another source of bafflegab.
    • FLUFF APPRECIATION DAY (In honor of all those who excel in the art of bureaucratic bafflegab, delightful double-speak, and twisted-tongued titillations)
    • In 1952, in a pique over bureaucratic language, then-assistant general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce coined the word “bafflegab."
    • Bafflegab is not just annoying; it can have genuinely dangerous consequences.
    • Today's modern workplace is awash in buzzwords, bafflegab, and all manner of blessed bumpf to wade through or digest over a morning latte with a dab of whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles on top.
    • Gordo, the head post, is sending out bafflegab to media and students stating that what he is doing is returning autonomy to post-secondary institutions.
 
 

Definition of bafflegab in US English:

bafflegab

nounˈbafəlˌɡab
North American informal
  • Incomprehensible or pretentious language, especially bureaucratic jargon.

    the smooth chairman who had elevated bafflegab to an art form
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Gordo, the head post, is sending out bafflegab to media and students stating that what he is doing is returning autonomy to post-secondary institutions.
    • To test whether such bafflegab also pays in print, Armstrong asked 20 management. professors to rank the academic prestige of 10 management journals.
    • ‘It is through such bafflegab that bureaucracies attempt to avoid responsibility and bureaucrats seek anonymity,’ he said.
    • But Netser was quick to pick up on the bafflegab.
    • There was a lot of bafflegab in the speech, a lot of nonsense.
    • Bafflegab is not just annoying; it can have genuinely dangerous consequences.
    • Climatologists' protests drowned in a sea of environmentalist bafflegab.
    • In 1952, in a pique over bureaucratic language, then-assistant general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce coined the word “bafflegab."
    • Aquarium's plans to expand are awash in park board bafflegab.
    • FLUFF APPRECIATION DAY (In honor of all those who excel in the art of bureaucratic bafflegab, delightful double-speak, and twisted-tongued titillations)
    • Today's modern workplace is awash in buzzwords, bafflegab, and all manner of blessed bumpf to wade through or digest over a morning latte with a dab of whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles on top.
    • Such a word-by-word translation may seem weird bafflegab, but is renders the different grammar structure in your target language transparent.
    • For some, ‘information theory’ is simply another source of bafflegab.
    • We were discussing the Reflections document and the ecclesial bafflegab of which it is composed.
    • It's bafflegab for talk, more talk, and even more talk; committee meetings, First Ministers' meetings, regularly scheduled meetings with the Prime Minister's Office.
 
 
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