Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists.
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- noun Alternative form of
gobbledygook .
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Examples
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Internet-savvy people who know that a mixture of letters, numbers -- in short, gobbledegook, is what a site needs.
Fast Company 2010
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If you, as a layman, find the judgments unintelligible then that is what the word gobbledegook means.
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This could be taken as jargon gobbledegook for 'meditation', but meditation could be taken as jargon gobbledegook for developing self-consciousness.
Darwiniana 2010
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I tried to pronounce it too ... the closest I came was "gobbledegook".
Archive 2009-08-01 Sarah 2009
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I tried to pronounce it too ... the closest I came was "gobbledegook".
Gobbledegook? Sarah 2009
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This kind of gobbledegook leads to Sikhs, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and the whole long chain of “others” claiming equal opportunity status in a country which is essentially built on Christians.
Oxford Must Reject Islamic Call To Prayer – Update « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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But Mr Latham said the prime minister's comments were "gobbledegook", after she'd appeared on the cover of women's magazines during the election campaign.
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No wonder the church is losing touch if this is the kind of gobbledegook they want us to believe it. '
Home | Mail Online 2010
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No wonder the church is losing touch if this is the kind of gobbledegook they want us to believe it. '
Home | Mail Online 2010
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"No wonder the Church is losing touch if this is the kind of gobbledegook they want us to believe it."
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