Gibberish

Definition: Gibberish

Gibberish

Noun

1. Unintelligible talking.

Date "gibberish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Gibberish (g hard). Geber, the Arabian, was by far the greatest alchemist of the eleventh century, and wrote several treatises on "the art of making gold" in the usual mystical jargon, because the ecclesiastics would have put to death any one who had openly written on the subject. Friar Bacon, in 1282, furnishes a specimen of this gibberish. He is giving the prescription for making gunpowder, and says - "Sed tamen salis-petræ LURU MONE CAP URBE Et sulphuris." The second line is merely an anagram of Carbonum pulvere (pulverised charcoal). "Gibberish," compare jabber, and gabble. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	GIBBERISH. The cant language of thieves and gypsies, called Pedlars' French, and St. Giles's Greek: see ST. GILES'S GREEK. Also the mystic language of Geber, used by chymists. Gibberish likewise means a sort of disguised language, formed by inserting any. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Gibberish is the family of languages created by inserting a certain code syllable in the middle of each syllable of a regular sentence. For example, if the code syllable were "ob", then "Hello, Thomas" would be translated as "Hobellobo, Thobomobas". While a relatively simple useless language, Gibberish can be difficult to understand when spoken swiftly and sounds merely like meaningless babble, which is how it received its name. While any syllables could theoretically be used as the code syllables, there are some which have risen to greater use.

Ubbi Dubbi-- "ub"
Double Dutch-- "ag"
Op (or Oppish)-- "op"

In addition, some variations exist with longer code syllables such as "ubbagg", resulting in even more gibberish-sounding gibberish. (Yubbaggou dubbaggon't wubbaggant tubbaggo knubbaggow).

Synonym: Gibberish

Synonym: gibber (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Absurdity	Jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish; (no meaning); exaggeration; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion.
Neologism	Dog Latin, macaronics, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English, chi-chi.
Unmeaningness	Nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness; (unintelligibility).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Gibberish

English words defined with "gibberish": abracadabra ♦ babble, babbling, blather, blatherskite ♦ double talk ♦ Galimatias ♦ lallation. (references)

Specialty definitions using "gibberish": sporgery. (references)

Etymologies containing "gibberish": gringo. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I like the cut of this man's gibberish. (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) There are vast areas of your brain that are filled with nothing but gibberish. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)
Lyrics	Just a buncha gibberish (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)
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Domain	Title
Books	Crazy Gibberish and Other Story Hour Sketches (From a Storytellers Bag of Tricks/Audio Cassette) (reference) Live Zen : a new therapy is born : therapy through gibberish (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption
	Baby gibberish.
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"Gibberish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "Gibberish" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	91.3%	42	52,864
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.52%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	46	N/A

Expression using "gibberish": talk gibberish. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "gibberish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dërdëllitje (chatter, gibber, giber, prate, prattle, talk shop, verbiage, yak, yapping), dërdëllisje (chatter, gibber, giber, prate, prattle, talk shop, verbiage, yak, yapping), çuçuritje. (various references)

Arabic		‏كلام غامض, ‏ثرثرة (babble, blab, blabber, boastfulness, breeze, cackle, chat, chatter, clatter, gab, gabble, garrulity, gas, jabber, jactitation, logorrhea, loquacity, patter, prate, prattle, rattle, talkativeness, tattler, tittle tattle, twaddle, yap), ‏رطانة (jabber, jargon, lingo), ‏بربرة (babble, gabble, jabber). (various references)

Bulgarian		технически език, безсмислици (baloney, bilge, rubbish, tripe). (various references)

Chinese		乱语. (various references)

Czech		hatmatilka (gobbledygook, lingo, mumbo jumbo). (various references)

Dutch		bargoens (jargon, lingo). (various references)

Esperanto		jargono (jargon, lingo). (various references)

Farsi		حرف شکسته ونامفهوم . (various references)

Finnish		siansaksa (jargon), sekasotku (jumble, mess). (various references)

French		charabia, bavardage, baragouin. (various references)

German		kauderwelsch (cant, double dutch, hotchpotch, jargon, jargons, lingo, mishmash, mumbo jumbo). (various references)

Greek		ασυναρτησίεσ (ravings), ανοησίες (nonsense). (various references)

Hungarian		összevissza beszéd (havers), érthetetlen beszéd. (various references)

Italian		parole inintelligibili, borbottio (gabble, gibber, mumble, mutter, rumble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		珍糞漢 (babble), 珍紛漢紛 (babble, double Dutch, unintelligible language), �"�人の寝言 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とうじ�"のね�"と, ち�"ぷ�"か�"ぷ�" (babble, double Dutch, unintelligible language), ち�"ぷ�"か�" (babble). (various references)

Norwegian		vrøvl, uforståelig snakk. (various references)

Pig Latin		ibberishgay.(various references)

Portuguese		sons inarticulados (gibber), linguagem sem nexo. (various references)

Romanian		jargon (cant, jargon, lingo, patter, slang), bolborosealã (babble, gibber, gobbledygook, mutter). (various references)

Russian		тарабарщина (double dutch, lingo). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trtljanje, frfljanje. (various references)

Spanish		farfullado, charla incoherente, algarabía (arabic, bedlam, gabble, jabber). (various references)

Swedish		tjatter, rotvälska (double dutch, jabber, jargon, lingo), rotvälsk. (various references)

Thai		คำที่ไม่มีความหมาย. (various references)

Turkish		saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), hızlı ve anlamsız konuşma, abuk sabuk söz. (various references)

Ukrainian		тарабарщина (jabber). (various references)

Vietnamese		lời nói lắp bắp câu nói sai ngữ pháp. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Spanish	900-Modern	gringo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "gibberish": gibberishes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gibberish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Biberach, gibberisg, gibbersh, gibbirish, giberish, giberrish, Gibris. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "gibberish" (pronounced gi"berish)
3	-er i sh	amateurish, licorice.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-e-g-h-i-i-r-s"
	-2 letters: gibbers.
	-3 letters: bribes, gibber, gibers, sigher.
	-4 letters: bergs, biers, birse, bribe, bries, brigs, giber, gibes, girsh, heirs, herbs, hires, ribes, rishi, shier, shire.
	-5 letters: begs, berg, bibs, bier, bigs, bise, brie, brig, bris, ebbs, egis, ergs, ghis, gibe, gibs, gies, heir, herb, hers, hies, hire, ibis, ires, iris, rebs, regs, reis, resh, ribs, rigs.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-e-g-h-i-i-r-s"
	+2 letters: gibberishes.
	+5 letters: bibliographers, bibliographies.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
gibberish	51
gibberish speak	46
gibberish learn speak	11
gibberish language	11
gibberish learn	8
gibberish speaking	4
gibberish talk	3
gibberish k lyrics relient	3
gibberish translator	3
gibberish lyrics	3
drunken gibberish	2
gibberish k relient	2
gibberish jimmy	2
gibberish learning	2
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Gibberish

Definition: Gibberish

Gibberish

Noun

Specialty Definition: Gibberish

Specialty Definition: Gibberish

Synonym: Gibberish

Synonyms within Context: Gibberish

Absurdity

Neologism

Unmeaningness

Crosswords: Gibberish

Modern Usage: Gibberish

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Commercial Usage: Gibberish

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Sounds Captioned with "Gibberish".

Usage Frequency: Gibberish

Expression: Gibberish

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gibberish

Modern Translation: Gibberish

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Japanese Kanji

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Ancestral Language Translations: Gibberish

Derivations & Misspellings: Gibberish

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Rhyming with "Gibberish"

Anagrams: Gibberish

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