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Meaning of Gibberish | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ˈd͡ʒɪ.bə.ɹɪʃ

Definitions

  1. Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
  2. Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
  3. A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.

Equivalents

العربية بربرة ثرثرة رطانة هراء
Azərbaycanca çərən-pərən
Bosanski sačma
Čeština blábol galimatyáš hatmatilka ptydepe
Français baragouin charabia chinois galimatias
Gaeilge gibiris
Gàidhlig blialam goileam
Galego chinés
Hrvatski sačma
Հայերեն ցնորք
Bahasa Indonesia racauan
Kurdî volapûk
Македонски баботење брборење
Português algaravia grego jargão
Српски sačma
Tagalog alimim
Türkçe jargon random saçma saçmalık
Українська абракадабра

Examples

“Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.”
“Could it be, after all, that the whole story was true, and the writing on the sherd was not a forgery, or the invention of some crack-brained, long-forgotten individual? And if so, could it be that Leo was the man that She was waiting for - the dead man who was to be born again! Impossible! The whole thing was gibberish! Who ever heard of a man being born again?”
“The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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