Gobbledygook is language that sounds as if it should mean something, especially in official or technical writing, but is so stuffed with long words and fog that a normal person cannot follow it. People say it with a grimace: it is a complaining word, not a neutral one. A form full of heretofore and pursuant to is classic gobbledygook; so is a science paragraph that never comes down to earth. An American politician, Maury Maverick, made the word in 1944, in a memo banning “gobbledygook language”, copying the noise a turkey makes — gobble-gobble — to mock writing that was all noise and no sense. It is uncountable: you get gobbledygook, not “a gobbledygook”.

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