First attested in a memo by US Representative (Texas) Maury Maverick dated March 30, 1944, banning "gobbledygook language". Apparently coined in imitation of the sounds made by a turkey.
gobbledygook (usually uncountable , plural gobbledygooks )
( informal ) Nonsense ; meaningless or encrypted language.
( informal ) Something written in an overly complex , incoherent , or incomprehensible manner.
nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language
Chinese:
Mandarin: 天書 / 天书 (zh) ( tiānshū )
Czech: hatmatilka (cs) f
Danish: bavl n , kaudervælsk (da) n , sludder n , vrøvl n
Dutch: koeterwaals (nl) n
Esperanto: galimatio
Finnish: liirumlaarum (fi) , diibadaaba (fi) , hölynpöly (fi)
French: charabia (fr) m , gloubi-boulga (fr) m
German: Geschwafel (de) n , Kauderwelsch (de) n , Gibberisch n , Gromolo n
Hungarian: halandzsa (hu) , maszlag (hu) , blabla (hu) , hadova (hu) , hablaty (hu)
Italian: fesserie f pl , sciocchezze (it) f pl , supercazzola (it) , idiozie (it) f pl
Japanese: 珍紛漢紛 ( chinpunkanpun )
Maori: reo kihi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tullprat m , vrøvl (no) n
Nynorsk: kaudervelsk m , galimatias n
Polish: bełkot (pl) m
Portuguese: algaravia (pt) f
Russian: галиматья́ (ru) f ( galimatʹjá )
Serbo-Croatian: galimatijas (sh) m , lupetanje (sh) n
Swedish: gallimatias (sv) , rappakalja (sv) , dravel (sv) , struntprat (sv) , goja (sv) , strunt (sv)
something written or said in an overly complex, incoherent, or incomprehensible manner