gobbledygook
Betekenis (Engels)
- (informal, uncountable, usually) Nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language.
- (informal, uncountable, usually) Something written in an overly complex, incoherent, or incomprehensible manner.
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Synoniemen
unintelligible language
incoherent language
talking nonsense
“all Greek to me”
Vertalingen
charabia
Kauderwelsch
galimatías
ακαταλαβίστικα
argot αλαμπουρνέζικα ασυνάρτητος γλώσσαEtymologie (Engels)
First attested in a memo by US Representative (Texas) Maury Maverick dated March 30, 1944, banning "gobbledygook language". Apparently coined in imitation of the sounds made by a turkey.
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