bafflegab
/ˈbæfəlɡæb/
bafflegab noun: pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language, especially legal or bureaucratic jargon.
Noun
bafflegab (uncountable)
- Pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language, especially legal or bureaucratic jargon.
- Toss in a few technical terms that most people don't understand—"stochastic" this, "regression" that—and you can use people's justified respect for math and science to get them nodding along. This is granularity as bafflegab.2015 September 29, Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, Crown, →ISBN
- Teachout has a gift for slicing through the bafflegab and revealing that the grifter's patter disguises nothing more than unimaginative, sociopathic scams.2020 July 29, Cory Doctorow, “Break 'Em Up”, in Pluralistic, retrieved 02 Aug 2020
- Synonyms:
- gobbledygook
Verb
bafflegab (third-person singular simple present bafflegabs, present participle bafflegabbing, simple past and past participle bafflegabbed)
- To use pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language.
bafflegab meaning in Tamil and Bengali
bafflegab in Tamil
- குழப்பப் பிதற்றொலி
bafflegab in Bengali
- ভণ্ডামিপূর্ণ, দুর্বোধ্য, অথবা অতিমাত্রায় কারিগরি ভাষা, আমলাতান্ত্রিক পরিভাষা
Synonyms of bafflegab
Forms of bafflegab
| third-person singular present | bafflegabs |
|---|---|
| present participle | bafflegabbing |
| past participle | bafflegabbed |
| past | bafflegabbed |
Origin of bafflegab
From baffle + gab, coined 1952.
Questions about bafflegab
- What does bafflegab mean?
- Bafflegab means pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language, especially legal or bureaucratic jargon.
- What is bafflegab in Tamil?
- Bafflegab in Tamil is குழப்பப் பிதற்றொலி. See Bafflegab meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is bafflegab?
- Bafflegab can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce bafflegab?
- Bafflegab is pronounced /ˈbæfəlɡæb/.
Words near bafflegab in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bafflegab (page history and authors); bafflegab (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bafflegab (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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