gobbledygook

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Alternative forms

• gobbledegook
• gobblygook, gobbly-gook

Noun

gobbledygook (usually uncountable; plural gobbledygooks)

1. (informal) Nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language.
2. (informal) Something written in an overly complex, incoherent, or incomprehensible manner.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:nonsense

Translations

Nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language.

• Finnish: liirumlaarum (fi), diibadaaba (fi)
• French: charabia (fr) m
• German: Geschwafel (de) n, Kauderwelsch (de) n
• Italian: supercazzola (it)
• Norwegian: kaudervelsk (no) m, galimatias (no) n
• Russian: галиматья (ru) (galimat'já) f

• Swedish: gallimatias (sv), rappakalja (sv), dravel (sv), struntprat (sv), goja (sv), strunt (sv)

Something written in an overly complex, incoherent, or incomprehensible manner.

• Finnish: kapulakieli (fi)
• French: galimatias (fr) m

• Italian: burocratese (it)