gibberish
noun/ˈdʒɪbərɪʃ/
/ˈdʒɪbərɪʃ/
[uncountable, singular] (informal)- words that have no meaning or are impossible to understand synonym nonsense
- You were talking gibberish in your sleep.
- After a while I stopped listening to his stream of gibberish.
- She was mumbling a strange gibberish as she prepared the mixture.
Word Originearly 16th cent.: perhaps from gibber (but recorded earlier) + the suffix -ish (denoting a language as in Spanish, Swedish, etc.).Definitions on the go
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