gobbledegook
pronunciation
How to pronounce gobbledegook in British English:
UK [ˈgɒbldigu:k]
How to pronounce gobbledegook in American English:
US
Word Origin
- gobbledegook
- gobbledegook: [20] This word for pretentious or obfuscatory verbiage was the invention, in the 1940s, of Maury Maverick, Texan lawyer, chairman of the US Smaller War Plants Corporation and a descendant of the Samuel A. Maverick who gave English the word maverick. His explanation of its genesis, that it was probably suggested by ‘the old bearded turkey gobbler back in Texas, who was always gobbledy-gobbling and strutting with ludicrous pomposity’, stikes a disingenuous note in the light of the previously existing US slang phrase gobble the goo, meaning ‘perform fellatio’.
Example
- 1. This computer manual is complete gobbledegook .
- 2. He added , " even good news is covered with gobbledegook . "
- 3. Bbc apologises for gobbledegook subtitles .
- 4. " Gobbledegook " sounds like the name of a monster in a fairy tale .
- 5. A few people dominated these sessions-the ones for whom the concepts were not gobbledegook .