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Gibberish, also known as jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense: ranging across speech sounds that are not actual words, ...
The Gobbledy Gooker is a professional wrestling turkey mascot originally portrayed by Héctor Guerrero.In the weeks leading up to the 1990 Survivor Series, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) hyped its debut by showcasing a large egg at live shows, causing much speculation among wrestling fans.
Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 – 12 January 2002), [1] sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comic actor and writer.. He invented his own comic language, "Unwinese", [2] referred to in the film Carry On Regardless (1961) as "gobbledygook".
Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs and "servicing the target" for bombing), [1] in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable.
William D. Lutz (/ l ĘŚ t s /; born December 12, 1940) is an American linguist who specializes in the use of plain language and the avoidance of doublespeak (deceptive language).
Gibberish (sometimes Jibberish or Geta [1]) is a language game that is played in the United States and Canada by adding "idig" to the beginning of each syllable of spoken words.
When word gets round, people rush to the agency, notably Sam Twist, Francis Courtenay, Delia King, Gabriel Dimple, Lily Duveen, Mike Weston and Montgomery Infield-Hopping. Bert decides to hire them all. At first, their only customer is a man who speaks gobbledygook, so nobody can understand him.
Maury Maverick (1895–1954), US Congressman from Texas, who coined the word "gobbledygook" Maury Maverick Jr. (1921–2003), Texas attorney, activist, and columnist; Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), Texas pioneer and land baron from whom the term maverick originated; Samuel Maverick Jr. (1837-1936), Texas soldier, businessman, and Alamo ...