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jibberish

jibberish is the alternative spelling of gibberish.

Meaning of gibberish

Noun

gibberish (usually uncountable, plural gibberishes)

  1. (usually) Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
    • Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 12, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC
  2. (usually) Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
  3. (usually) A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.

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Forms of jibberish

comparativemore jibberish
superlativemost jibberish

Questions about jibberish

What is jibberish the alternative spelling of?
Jibberish is the alternative spelling of gibberish.

Words near jibberish in the dictionary

  1. jibber-jabbering
  2. jibber-jabbers
  3. jibbered
  4. jibbering
  5. jibberings
  6. jibberish
  7. jibbers
  8. jibbing
  9. jibbing out
  10. jibbings
  11. jibbon

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