gibberish

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
2. (uncountable, usually) Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
3. (uncountable, usually) A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.

Adj

unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless

Synonyms

babble

nonsense

gobbledygook

mumbo jumbo

jargon

chatter

double Dutch

foolishness

balderdash

prattle

abracadabra

gibber

ravings

rubbish

double talk

farrago

folly

idiocy

incomprehensible

jabber

jabbering

lingo

nonsensical

patter

raving

rot

shit

💩

stories

trifle

tripe

twaddle

weird

unintelligible language

incoherent language

talking nonsense

“all Greek to me”

horse piss

Greek

🇬🇷

rhubarb rhubarb

absurd

babbling

bafflegab

blubbering

bollocks

bombast

borborygmus

cant

chattering

delirium

double-talk

Translations

Kauderwelsch

charabia

koeterwaals

baragouin

galimatías

galimatias

wartaal

saçma

jargon

jerigonza

algarabía

amphigouri

ασυναρτησίες

borborygme

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɪb.ə.ɹɪʃ/

Etymology

First attested mid-16th century. Origin obscure. Possibly from *gibber, of onomatopoeic origin imitating to the sound of chatter, possibly from or influenced by jabber, + -ish denoting the name of a language (compare English, Finnish, Spanish, etc.). The verb gibber, first attested circa 1600, is usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish.