Definition of gobbledygook
: wordy and generally unintelligible jargon
variants:
or less commonly
gobbledegook
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Examples of gobbledygook in a Sentence
The report is just a bunch of gobbledygook.
cut through the gobbledygook and just tell me what the final cost of the car would be
Recent Examples of gobbledygook from the Web
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Their explanations are always a jumbled turd of gobbledygook about forgiveness, togetherness and everything except the evil of white supremacy.
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Or, as Chief Justice John Roberts described it: gobbledygook.
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Black people eschew all that gobbledygook about the charity and the joy of giving.
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There are genes known as retrotransposons that can copy themselves and paste the duplicates in other parts of our DNA, creating large tracts of repetitive gobbledygook.
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Can Justice Stephen Breyer survive a close brush with gobbledygook?
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Justice Stephen Breyer said the social science measurements may be gobbledygook, but the idea of fairness is not and there are efficient ways for courts to determine what's fair.
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Over the past year, people have tried to whitesplain taking a knee with gobbledygook about America’s need to have a conversation about the underprivileged, inherent bias, or anything that’s not about the flag, the anthem or race.
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One by one, White's dummy files are encrypted, rendering them into inaccessible, alphanumeric gobbledygook.
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Origin and Etymology of gobbledygook
irregular from gobble, noun
gobbledygook Synonyms
Synonyms
double-talk, gibberish, rigmarole (also rigamarole), song and dance;
Related Words
bureaucratese, computerese, educationese, governmentese, legalese, Pentagonese, psychobabble, technobabble;
bombast, gas, grandiloquence, hot air, hype, oratory, rhetoric, wind;
GOBBLEDYGOOK Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of gobbledygook for English Language Learners
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: speech or writing that is complicated and difficult to understand
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