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gobbledygook

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Noun — Language that makes no sense or is hard to understand.

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First attested in a memo by US Representative Maury Maverick of Texas, dated 30 March 1944, banning "gobbledygook language". It was apparently coined in imitation of the sounds made by a turkey.

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