Gobbledygook
(noun)
Language or speech that is meaningless or difficult to understand, often used in a humorous or negative context.
Origin:
From the words "gobble" meaning to eat quickly and noisily and "gook" meaning a person or thing that is not important or intelligible, it was first used in the early 20th century.
Examples:
- The legal document was full of gobbledygook.
- The technical manual was written in gobbledygook.
- The speaker's use of jargon and acronyms was gobbledygook to the audience.
- The text was written in gobbledygook and it was impossible to understand the meaning.
- He was known for his gobbledygook speeches, that no one could understand.