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GIBBERISH

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Dictionary entry overview: What does gibberish mean?

• GIBBERISH (noun)
The noun GIBBERISH has 1 sense:

1. unintelligible talking

Familiarity information: GIBBERISH used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GIBBERISH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Unintelligible talking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

gibber; gibberish

Hypernyms ("gibberish" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gibberish"):

abracadabra (gibberish and nonsense)

babble; babbling; lallation (gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby)

blather; blatherskite (foolish gibberish)

double Dutch (an incomprehensible talk)

double talk (deliberately unintelligible gibberish)

gabble; jabber; jabbering (rapid and indistinct speech)

mumbo jumbo (language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand)

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