Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of gobbledygook.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists.
Examples
“Internet-savvy people who know that a mixture of letters, numbers -- in short, gobbledegook, is what a site needs.”
“If you, as a layman, find the judgments unintelligible then that is what the word gobbledegook means.”
“This could be taken as jargon gobbledegook for 'meditation', but meditation could be taken as jargon gobbledegook for developing self-consciousness.”
“I tried to pronounce it too ... the closest I came was "gobbledegook".”
“This kind of gobbledegook leads to Sikhs, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and the whole long chain of “others” claiming equal opportunity status in a country which is essentially built on Christians.”
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“No wonder the Church is losing touch if this is the kind of gobbledegook they want us to believe it.”
“But Mr Latham said the prime minister's comments were "gobbledegook", after she'd appeared on the cover of women's magazines during the election campaign.”
“No wonder the church is losing touch if this is the kind of gobbledegook they want us to believe it. ”
“An obsession with "gobbledegook" in the education system risks undermining discipline and teaching standards, according to one of the Government's top head teachers.”
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“In a speech to the 100 Group, a new coalition of leading private and state school heads, he said teachers needed to "talk in a straightforward way about school improvement" but many were obsessed with "gobbledegook".”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gobbledegook’.
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Expressions of disbelief or disagreement
bollocks, come off it, rubbish, as if, bullshit, guff, i don't believe it, are you mad, tosh, nonsense, garbage, bunkum and 58 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Baron Luke's Collection
An assortment of words, which, when used, should inject some vibrancy into your day, hopefully expunging any ennui!
expunge, cogitate, elucidate, post-haste, rebarbative, recalcitrant, smite, absquatulate, forlorn, thole, nefarious, insubordination and 124 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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Poppycock
Nonsense.
folderol, taradiddle, tommyrot, drivel, rubbish, balderdash, baloney, gibberish, bosh, flummery, gobbledegook, rot and 8 more...
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autrefois's Words
tassel, vespertine, susurrus, crepuscular, maddening, aureate, halcyon, happenstance, kismet, carousel, luscious, mendacious and 56 more...
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Things Your Angry Conservative Grandp...
codswallop, malarkey, hooey, blatherskite, tommyrot, gobbledegook, twaddle, fiddlesticks, balderdash, tosh, bunkum, poppycock and 5 more...
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