double Dutch · gibberish · Auvergnat dialect
çekim: çoğul charabias
eş: amphigouri, agrach, baragouin, galimatias, similipeul
köken: Attested since at least 1838, originally to denote the incomprehensible talk of Auvergnats. The further etymology is uncertain. It's believed to possibly mimick a perceived Auvergnat pronunciation of /s/ as /ʃ/. Others theorize it's derived from Occitan charrar (“to chatter”), or Franco-Provençal charabarat (horse market). A borrowing from Spanish algarabía has been theorized but deemed less…
🔊 Qu'est-ce que c'est que ce charabia?
🔊 Qu'est-ce que c'est que ce charabia, ô Vicévertus, médecin-chef de mes armées ?
gibberish, nonsense, jumble · gallimaufry
köken: Borrowed from French galimatias, of uncertain origin.
bureaucratese, officialese
çekim: çoğul burocratesi
köken: From burocrate (“bureaucrat”) + -ese.
babbling (sounds produced by an infant) · babble, prattle (idle talk)
köken: From ge- + brabbelen.
academese (preference for long or complex words and sentences)
burble, stammer, babble, mammering (unclear speech) · burble, gibberish, gobbledygook (complex or unclear statement) · gibberish, gobbledygook (complex or unclear statement)
çekim: çoğul bełkoty · tamlayan bełkotu
eş: kit, gadka szmatka, bzdura, nonsens
köken: Deverbal from bełkotać. For the semantic shifts, compare English burble.
🔊 Z jego ust dobywał się kompletny bełkot.
🔊 Takiego bełkotu jak od niej to już dawno nie słyszałem.
Hebrew (language) · gibberish, Greek (needlessly obscure or overly technical language)
çekim: çoğul hepreat · tamlayan heprean
köken: From Latin hebraeus, from Ancient Greek Ἑβραῖος (Hebraîos), from Biblical Hebrew עִבְרִי.
aile: heprealainen, hepreantaa, hepreankielinen
🔊 Tämä on minulle täyttä hepreaa.
gibberish
çekim: çoğul hatmatilky · tamlayan hatmatilky
eş: ptydepe
double Dutch, gibberish, jargon, nonsense (nonsensical talk, incomprehensible language)
çekim: çoğul halandzsák
köken: Coined by Frigyes Karinthy; first published in 1912.
aile: halandzsázik
prate, jabber · unjustified insinuation, accusation
çekim: çoğul брътве́жи
köken: By surface analysis, бръ́твя (brǎ́tvja, “to prattle”) + -еж (-ež).
Galiçyaca 🔊 xerga (dişil) /ˈʃɛɾɣa̝/ jargon; slang
çekim: çoğul xergas
köken: From Spanish jerga (“jargon”).
aile: enxergar, xergón
gibberish, jargon
çekim: tamlayan gibirise
köken: From English gibberish.
nonsense
çekim: çoğul აბდაუბდები · tamlayan აბდაუბდის
cmn 🔊 亂語 /乱语 , 胡言亂語 /胡言乱语 , 胡話 /胡话