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  2. GOBBLEDYGOOK definition: language that sounds important and official but is difficult to understand: . Learn more.

  3. The meaning of GOBBLEDYGOOK is wordy and generally unintelligible jargon. How to use gobbledygook in a sentence.

  4. Gobbledygook is the standard spelling of the noun originally meaning language characterized by jargon or pretentious verbiage. The secondary spelling gobbledegook appears about once for every three instances of gobbledygook—although, somewhat interestingly, gobbledegook is preferred in British English and especially rare in American English.

  5. If you describe a speech or piece of writing as gobbledygook, you are criticizing it for seeming like nonsense and being very technical or complicated.

  6. Language or jargon, esp. in bureaucratic or official contexts, which is pretentious, long-winded, or specialized to the point of being unintelligible to the general public; nonsense, gibberish. Recorded earliest in attributive use.

  7. gobbledygook definition: nonsense or very complicated language that you cannot understand. Learn more.

  8. noun. (also gobbledegook) /ˈɡɑbəldiˌɡʊk/ , /ˈɡɑbəldiˌɡuk/. [uncountable] (informal) complicated language that is difficult to understand, especially when used in official documents It's all gobbledygook to me. Take your English to the next level.

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