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(I'm not being facetious, I've build some Japanese models where the verbiage is almost non-coherent ... trust me, it's a real stretch, but with some brain power, you can interpolate!).

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  1. noun An excess of words for the purpose; wordiness.
  2. noun The manner in which something is expressed in words: software verbiage.

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  • This kind of verbiage is not the exception, but the rule. —  Steven Pinker on language and thought
  • It excised tracts of repetitive verbiage, and constructed instead a series of events and moments where never a word or shot was gratuitous. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3
  • Other times, Hanna would offer a reporter a stream-of-consciousness interview in which the subjects and antecedents in his verbiage were very difficult to pick out. —  The Observer-Dispatch Home RSS
  • I would suggest you stop with the over-the-top verbiage, and the downright un-Oxford like language. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • I emphasise that the above quick reference poster and accompanying verbiage is my personal understanding of the migration story, the associated scenarios and the new VSTS rangers project. —  MSDN Blogs
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  1. French, from Old French verbier, to chatter, from verbe, word, from Latin verbum; see verb.

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  1. from French verbiage, wordiness, from Latin verbum, word: see verb.
 

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