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English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
gobbledygook (usually uncountable, plural gobbledygooks)
- (informal) Nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language.
- (informal) Something written in an overly complex, incoherent, or incomprehensible manner.
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Translations
nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 天書 / 天书 (zh) (tiānshū)
- Czech: hatmatilka (cs) f
- Danish: bavl n, kaudervælsk (da) n, sludder n, vrøvl n
- Dutch: koeterwaals (nl) n
- Esperanto: galimatio
- Finnish: liirumlaarum (fi), diibadaaba (fi), hölynpöly (fi)
- French: charabia (fr) m, gloubi-boulga (fr) m
- German: Geschwafel (de) n, Kauderwelsch (de) n, Gibberisch n, Gromolo n
- Hungarian: halandzsa (hu), maszlag (hu), blabla (hu), hadova (hu), hablaty (hu)
- Italian: fesserie f pl, sciocchezze (it) f pl, supercazzola (it), idiozie (it) f pl
- Japanese: 珍紛漢紛 (chinpunkanpun)
- Maori: reo kihi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tullprat m, vrøvl (no) n
- Nynorsk: kaudervelsk m, galimatias n
- Polish: bełkot (pl) m
- Portuguese: algaravia (pt) f
- Russian: галиматья́ (ru) f (galimatʹjá)
- Serbo-Croatian: galimatijas (sh) m, lupetanje (sh) n
- Swedish: gallimatias (sv), rappakalja (sv), dravel (sv), struntprat (sv), goja (sv), strunt (sv)
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something written or said in an overly complex, incoherent, or incomprehensible manner