bafflegabble

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A form of baffle-gabble — confusing, fast-talking nonsense

OriginEnglish gabble ← Middle English gabben ← Old English gabban →
Scrabble 25
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Meanings

adjectivebafflegabble (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of baffle-gabble.

    So many of us get caught up in the bafflegabble that has taken over […]

    2004 November 2, John Filson, “Relationship Issue”, in Toronto Star, via Newspapers.com, retrieved 18 Aug 2026, page D3
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    In that issue three pictures were shown accompanied by a bit of bafflegabble, such as "creative independence" etc.

    1958 June 13, Mali McCormack, “Wot Hoppened to Art Reviews?”, in Tucson Citizen, volume 86, number 141, via Newspapers.com, retrieved 18 Aug 2026, page 14

    Government bureaucracies have their own jargon, and so do journalists. Some people call these esoteric languages gobbledygook; I call them bafflegabble, because they are gabble and they do often baffle us.

    1978 November 18, Richard Roberts, “The Queen's English”, in Edmonton Journal, via Newspapers.com, retrieved 18 Aug 2026, page D2

Origin

  1. Frenchbafouerder.?
  2. Frenchbeferder.?
  3. Englishbaffle
  4. Proto-Germanic*gabbōną
  5. Proto-West Germanic*gabbōn
  6. Old Englishgabban
  7. Middle Englishgabben
  8. Englishgab
  9. Englishgabble
  10. Englishbafflegabble

From baffle + gabble.

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APA

bafflegabble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bafflegabble

MLA

“bafflegabble.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bafflegabble. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bafflegabble,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bafflegabble.

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