gobbledygook

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The gobbledygook is the best part.

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  • But if you talk nothing but gobbledygook, journalists will get bored even if their job is to cover your industry.
  • There were five entries of what looked to Bennie like gobbledygook, in columns on the left. —  Scottoline, Lisa - Mistaken Identity
  • Perhaps the Ghahari physi­cists were still digesting her elaborate gobbledygook, trying to decide if it made sense. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • Made-up gobbledygook, but of course once you let yourself start thinking like that, the whole world starts to fall apart. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 06 - December 1997
  • "If they speak in gobbledygook, it's not acceptable," Dunn says.
 

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  1. Imitative of the gobbling of a turkey.
 

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