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

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 or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion)

Derivation:

gibber (chatter inarticulately; of monkeys)

 Context examples 

My words seem gibberish to me.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

That's what I have been talking to you, sir—scientific gibberish!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw Mr. Rochester shudder: a singularly marked expression of disgust, horror, hatred, warped his countenance almost to distortion; but he only said—Come, be silent, Richard, and never mind her gibberish: don't repeat it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)