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Gobbledygook or gobbledegook (sometimes shortened to gobbledegoo) is an English word brooked to set forth twisted or meaningless speech, louds that seem like speech but have no meaning, or unwitsome writing. It also sets forth rungly or showy speech. In this meaning, gobbledygook is a hurdle to being understood at best and a way of foisting one's might at worst.

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  • Gobbledygook or gobbledegook (sometimes shortened to gobbledegoo) is an English word brooked to set forth twisted or meaningless speech, louds that seem like speech but have no meaning, or unwitsome writing. It also sets forth rungly or showy speech. In this meaning, gobbledygook is a hurdle to being understood at best and a way of foisting one's might at worst.
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  • Gobbledygook or gobbledegook (sometimes shortened to gobbledegoo) is an English word brooked to set forth twisted or meaningless speech, louds that seem like speech but have no meaning, or unwitsome writing. It also sets forth rungly or showy speech. In this meaning, gobbledygook is a hurdle to being understood at best and a way of foisting one's might at worst. The word was born on 30 Roughmonth, 1944 by Maury Maverick, seat-holder of the Banded Folkdoms' Smaller War Buildworks Businessbody. In a byleaf banning "gobbledygook speech", he wrote "anyone brooking the words activation or implementation will be shot". Maverick later brooked the word in the New York Times Glossy on 21 Thrimilch, 1944 as a further gripe against the clouded speech brooked by his fellows. Maverick unraveled that the root of gobbledygook was his neighbor of Netherlandish afterbearing named Gobbel De Gook. He went on, "De Gook was always outside working on his tulips, talking aloud, endlessly, about something he seemingly thought had bearing, but no one could understand a word he said, as we neighbors called it, he but spoke a lot of Gobbel De Gook."
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