gibberish
sostantivoaggettivoattestato nei dialoghi
- //ˈd͡ʒɪ.bə.ɹɪʃ//
Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
sostantivo
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Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.
Could it be, after all, that the whole story was true, and the writing on the sherd was not a forgery, or the invention of some crack-brained, long-forgotten individual? And if so, could it be that Leo was the man that She was waiting for - the dead man who was to be born again! Impossible! The whole thing was gibberish! Who ever heard of a man being born again?
The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.
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Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
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A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.
Etimologia
First attested mid-16th century. Origin obscure. Possibly from *gibber, of onomatopoeic origin imitating to the sound of chatter, possibly from or influenced by jabber, + -ish denoting the name of a language (compare English, Finnish, Spanish, etc.). The verb gibber, first attested circa 1600, is usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish.
aggettivo
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unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless
Forme
- plurale
- gibberishes
- comparativo
- more gibberish
- superlativo
- most gibberish
gibberish · Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
Gibbons · A surname.Gibbs · An English patronymic surname from Gibb (Gilbert).Gibson · An English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.