Language that is intentionally or unintentionally confusing, full of fancy words, or incomprehensible jargon that obscures meaning.
Likely from an onomatopoeia mimicking the sound a turkey makes ('gobble'), combined with 'gook' in a playful, nonsensical-sounding compound created in the 1940s.
Gobbledegook was officially named and criticized by American politician Maury Maverick in 1944—he invented the word to fight against bureaucratic confusion!
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