Word of the day - GOBBLEDYGOOK

The word today is Gobbledygook

Gobbledygook is a noun and means the following:

- Words or instruction that seem important or credible but are not

- Words or speech that is unclear, actual nonsense or incomprehensible

- Overly complicated or jargon filled information few can understand

- Information or language rendered by an encryption process

England pronounces Gobbledygook like Gobble-Dee-Gook

The first recorded use of the word gobbledygook was in memo date March 30th 1944, by a Texas politician called Maury Maverick, who got sick of  incomprehensible answers and said he wanted no more "gobbledygook language". Maverick said he made up the word in imitation of turkey noise.

If someone says, "that's gobbledygook" they mean it's rubbish

If you speak gobbledygook people will tend to ignore you

It is said that most politician's speech is often gobbledygook 

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