GIBBERISH-LIKE WORDS

English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)

GIBBERISH-LIKE WORDS

If you describe someone’s words or ideas as gibberish, you mean that they do not make any sense. I will list some gibberish-like words in English:

1. Gobbledygook: If you describe a speech or piece of writing as gobbledygook, you are criticizing it for seeming like nonsense and being very technical or complicated:
   Many simply find Patrick Obahiagbon’s gobbledygook amusing.
2. Cock-a-doodle-doo: This is the English representation of the sound that a male chicken makes or an imitation of it. It is verbally described in most Nigerian societies as “kukuruku”.
3. Higgledy-piggledy: If you say that things are higgledy-piggledy, you mean that they are very disorganised and untidy. The word could be an adjective or an adverb:
   The books were higgledy-piggledy scattered around.
   GAB