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gibberish noun [ ˈdʒɪb(ə)rɪʃ ]

• unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense.
• "he talks gibberish"
Similar: nonsense, balderdash, blather, blether, rubbish, drivel, gobbledygook, mumbo jumbo, tripe, hogwash, baloney, bilge, bosh, bull, bunk, guff, eyewash, piffle, twaddle, poppycock, phooey, hooey, malarkey, dribble, rot, cobblers, codswallop, tosh, cack, cock, stuff and nonsense, double Dutch, havers, garbage, flapdoodle, blathers, wack, bushwa, applesauce, bunkum, tommyrot, cod, gammon, toffee, shit, bullshit, horseshit, crap, bollocks, balls, crapola, bulldust,
Opposite: sense,
Origin: early 16th century: perhaps from gibber1 (but recorded earlier) + the suffix -ish1 (denoting a language as in Spanish, Swedish, etc.).


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