bafflegabble

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

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"In that issue three pictures were shown accompanied by a bit of bafflegabble, such as "creative independence" etc."
"Government bureaucracies have their own jargon, and so do journalists. Some people call these esoteric languages gobbledygook; I call them bafflegabble, because they are gabble and they do often baffle us."
"So many of us get caught up in the bafflegabble that has taken over […]"

Etymology tree French bafouerder.? French beferder.? English baffle Proto-Germanic *gabbōną Proto-West Germanic *gabbōn Old English gabbander. Middle English gabbender. English gab Proto-Germanic *-lōną Old English -lian Middle English -len English -le English gabble English bafflegabble From baffle + gabble.

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What does bafflegabble mean?

Alternative form of baffle-gabble.

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