This week’s theme
Illustrated words

This week’s words
mimetic
gobbledygook
berserk
kindler
fairy-tale

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(GOB-uhl-dee-gook)

MEANING:

noun: Speech or writing marked by jargon, circumlocution, or unintelligible terms.

ETYMOLOGY:

Probably from gobble, representing a turkey’s gobble. Earliest documented use: 1944.

USAGE:

“They gave me some technical gobbledygook that was impossible to understand.”
Joe Klein; Primary Colors; Random House; 1996.

See more usage examples of gobbledygook in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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