gibberish

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  1. noun Unintelligible or nonsensical talk or writing.
  2. noun Highly technical or esoteric language.
  3. noun Unnecessarily pretentious or vague language.

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  • At times his gibberish was so rapid that Lefty and Bugs had to swear at him to slow him down understandably The two crooked lumber detectives began to get pale at the gills as the significance of the Gray Spider's orders dawned. —  003 - Quest of the Spider
  • True, the great majority of these would be gibberish, but writing a program that can screen out the gibberish is a much more difficult project —  Max Barry
  • "Just a little bit of that gibberish is a bountiful sufficiency, husband mine. —  Subspace Survivors
  • He was uttering some strange gibberish, and addressing the gun, evidently supposing it to be a being possessed of supernatural powers. —  Twice Lost
  • And with that Josef, in a gibberish which is French-Canadian patois of the inner circles, addressed the Tin Lizzie and took away the net from him, asking no orders from me. —  Joy in the Morning
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jargon ·  twaddle ·  prattle ·  babble ·  singsong ·  drivel ·  fustian ·  raving ·  scrawl ·  gabble ·  jabbering ·  balderdash
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Probably from gibber, to speak unintelligibly (of imitative origin) + -ish.

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  1. Formerly also gibbrish, gibrish, gibridge (also geberish, gebrish, the last forms apparently accommodation, in allusion to the jargon of alchemy, to Geber (or Gebir, in Grower Gibere), the reputed founder of the Arabian school of chemistry or alchemy); from gibber, gabble, + -ish, apparently in imitation of language-names in -ish.
 

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