"gobblygook" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gobblygooks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} gobblygook (usually uncountable, plural gobblygooks)
  1. Alternative form of gobbledygook Tags: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually Alternative form of: gobbledygook
    Sense id: en-gobblygook-en-noun--RPrxfIg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2001, United States Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs, Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs appropriations for fiscal year 2001, U.S. G.P.O., page 83",
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          "ref": "2008, Kenny Attaway, Hot Nickles & Kool Pennies, AuthorHouse, page 35",
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          "ref": "2010, Ted Nugent, Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto, Regnery Publishing, page 52",
          "text": "I've heard a lot hypothesizing and scientific gobblygook, but Darwin doesn't do it for me.",
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