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PARA-395-Gobbledygook: Ham

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Level 6 - abstract
Word: Gobbledygook

Origin:
Also gobbledegook, "the overinvolved, pompous talk of officialdom" [Klein], 1944, American English, first used by Texas politician Maury Maverick (1895-1954), a grandson of the inspiration for maverick and chairman of U.S. Smaller War Plants Corporation during World War II, in a memo dated March 30, 1944, banning "gobbledygook language" and mock-threateaning, "anyone using the words activation or implementation will be shot." Maverick said he made up the word in imitation of turkey noise. Another word for it, coined about the same time, was bafflegab (1952).

Definition:
Language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of abstruse technical terms; nonsense.

Magic Status: 1 - Neophyte
Tier 1 - Words on hindquarters jitter and scramble themselves, get replaced with entirely new words, and change fonts.

Wisdom Status: 0 - Unaware