gibberish
Americannoun
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meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing.
- Synonyms:
- gobbledegook, drivel, gabble, babble, foolishness, nonsense
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talk or writing containing many obscure, pretentious, or technical words.
noun
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rapid chatter like that of monkeys
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incomprehensible talk; nonsense
Etymology
Origin of gibberish
1545–55; apparently gibber + -ish 1, on the model of language names so formed
Example Sentences
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Dad, though, is looking at me like I’m speaking gibberish and I want to kick myself that once again I didn’t explain it well enough to sell him on the idea.
From Literature
And the rest of the world thought it was actually gibberish.”
From Los Angeles Times
When I pointed out that its predictions were wrong, and included teams that weren’t even in the competition, it admitted I was right, promised to do better next time, and then produced more gibberish.
From MarketWatch
The telltale clues included gibberish coordinates embedded in the fake image, which spread across sites including Instagram, Threads and X.
From Barron's
Spitting up black phlegm and shouting out strings of word-association gibberish, Ms. Buckley quickly becomes the centerpiece of the movie, or rather its central headache.
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