Gibberish

Definitions

1. Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
   uncountable, usually
2. Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
   uncountable, usually
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.
   uncountable, usually

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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.”

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