Define the word gibberish"gibberish" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
gibberish \gib"ber*ish\ (j[i^]b"b[~e]r*[i^]sh or
g[i^]b"b[~e]r*[i^]sh), n. [From Gibber, v. i.]
1. Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language;
unmeaning words.
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He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go;
All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know.
--Drayton.
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Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing
themselves with. --Hawthorne.
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2. Incomprehensible, obscure, or pretentious technical talk
or writing; excessively obscure jargon.
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"Gibberish" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Gibberish \Gib"ber*ish\, a.
Unmeaning; as, gibberish language.
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"gibberish" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
gibberish
n : unintelligible talking [syn: gibber]
"gibberish" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "gibberish":
Aesopian language, Babel, Gongorism, Greek, abracadabra, absurdity,
amphigory, argot, babble, babblement, balderdash, balls,
bibble-babble, blabber, blather, blether, bombast, bullshit, bunk,
bunkum, cackle, cant, chatter, cipher, claptrap, code, crap,
cryptogram, double Dutch, double-talk, drivel, drool,
fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian,
gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, garble, gibber, gibble-gabble,
gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, humbug,
jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jumble, lingo, magic, mumbo jumbo,
mumbo-jumbo, mummery, narrishkeit, niaiserie, noise, nonsense,
pack of nonsense, palaver, patois, patter, phraseology, piffle,
poppycock, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole,
rodomontade, rubbish, scatology, scramble, secret language,
skimble-skamble, slang, sorcery, stuff and nonsense,
stultiloquence, taboo language, thaumaturgy, trash, tripe,
trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, vernacular,
vocabulary, vulgar language, waffling
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