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Gibberish   /gˈɪbərɪʃ/   Listen
noun
gibberish  n.  
1.
Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words. "He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know." "Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with."
2.
Incomprehensible, obscure, or pretentious technical talk or writing; excessively obscure jargon.


adjective
Gibberish  adj.  Unmeaning; as, gibberish language.





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"Gibberish" Quotes from Famous Books



... sit neare me; Feele my pulse once again and tell me, Doctor, Tell me in tearmes that I may understand,— I doe not love your gibberish,—tell me honestly Where the Cause lies, and give a Remedy, And that with speed; or in despight of Art, Of Nature, you and all your heavenly motions, Ile recollect so much of life into me As shall give space to see you tortur'd. Some body told me that ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... burst of protest from my companions, who naturally wished the man to be catechised. Once the door had shut behind the bent blue back, I handed round the letter, which had to be translated for Sir Marcus, who professed contempt for "foreign gibberish." ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... those big snakes is to cover his head with a bag, and then he'll crawl in himself to get into the dark, which is a serpent's idea of safety. The more you prod 'em the faster they'll crawl, and that was the time when Merritt always made passes with his hands and muttered gibberish to impress the spectators. He started in according to programme as soon as he located the snake, which was half hidden among a lot of casks. The snake carried out his part and struck at the opened bag which Merritt held out to him, but instead of ...
— Side Show Studies • Francis Metcalfe
... [man] does not as a rule use or at least confine himself to articulate speech. . . . All children . . . fall naturally, long after they are able to express themselves as it is called rationally, into a sort of pleasant gibberish when they are alone and pleased or even displeased. . . . It must be a not infrequent experience of most people that one frequently falls into pure jingle and nonsense verse of the nursery kind. . . . I should myself, though I may not carry many people with me, go farther than this and say that ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... two or three times in the year. One of these tribes calls itself by the noble name of Stanley, of which I have nothing particular to say; but the other is distinguished by an appellative somewhat remarkable. — As far as their harsh gibberish can be understood, they seem to say that the name of their clan is Curleople; now the termination of this word is apparently Grecian: and as Mezeray and the gravest historians all agree that these vagrants did certainly migrate from Egypt and ...
— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White


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