gibberishn.adj.

/ˈdʒɪbərɪʃ/

/ˈɡɪbərɪʃ/

Forms: 1500s–1700s geb(b)-, gib(b)-, g(h)yb(b)rish, gib(b)r-, gib(b)eridge, -ige, (1600s geberish, guibbridge, 1700s gibbirish), 1500s– gibberish.

Etymology: ? < gibber v.¹ (though that word appears later in our quots.), after names of languages in -ish suffix¹.

A. n.

Unintelligible speech belonging to no known language, and supposed to be of arbitrary invention; inarticulate chatter, jargon. Often applied contemptuously to blundering or ungrammatical language, to obscure and pretentious verbiage, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun]

jargon1340

gibberishc1557

fustiana1593

hibber-gibber1593

rabble?1593

gabbling1599

rantum-scantum1599

ribble-rabble1601

gabble1602

High Dutch1602

Greek1603

baragouin1614

galimatias1653

riddle-me-ree1678

clink-clank1679

Hebrew1705

alieniloquy1727

jabber1735

mumbo-jumbo1738

gibbering1786

rigmarole1809

gibber1832

rigmarolery1833

Babelism1834

jargoning1837

barrikin1851

abracadabra1867

double Dutch1876

jabberwock1902

jabberwocky1908

jibber-jabber1922

mumbo-jumbery1923

mumbo1931

double-talk1938

garbology1944

c1557 Enterlude of Youth (new ed.) sig. Aii^v What me thynke ye be clerkyshe For ye speake good gibbryshe.

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. Other some..if they happen to here an olde word..crye out streightway, that we speak no English, but gibbrish.

1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 46 They are agreed of certaine uncouth non-significant terms which goe current among themselves as the Gipsies are of Gibridge, which none but themselves can spell without a paire of Spectacles.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 200 His little infant neere, in childish gibbridge showes What addeth to his griefe.

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 523 They all the while crying quarter in their barbarous gibbridge.

1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i. 18 It may keep the field against a whole Army of Lawyers, and that in their own language, French Gibberish.

1700 Paper to W. Penn Pref. sig. A ij The Books of the Quakers..were generally set at nought as Gibberish.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxx. 274 He repeated some gibberish, which by the sound seemed to be Irish.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 155 Their language is in the patois of fraud; in the cant and gibberish of hypocrisy.

1803 Edinb. Rev. 2 377 The admixture of the gibberish used by the negroes.

1835 T. B. Macaulay Sir James Mackintosh in Ess. (1887) 350 A state trial was a murder preceded by the uttering of certain gibberish and the performance of certain mummeries.

1884 Stepniak in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 333 The aborigines speak an unintelligible gibberish.

in combination.1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xi. 75 The babling tattle, and fond fibs, seditiously raised between the gibblegablers, and Accursian gibberish-mongers.

†B. adj.

Of or pertaining to gibberish, expressed in gibberish; unintelligible, unmeaning. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [adjective]

gibberish1598

inarticulate1603

unarticulate1603

hi cockalorum1783

jargonal1831

jabberwocky1908

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Balchi, a..roguish, gibbrish word, vsed for money.

1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger Table sig. Iiii3^v The frauds, deceits, lyes, gibbrish language of roagues.

1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 3 That old intanglement of iniquitie, their gibrish Lawes.

a1691 Baxter in Sir J. Stephen Eccl. Biog. (1850) II. 47 By his gibberish derision, persuading men that we deserve no other answer than such scorn and nonsense as beseemeth fools.

1704 Proclam. 24 Feb. in London Gaz. No. 3996/1 The Key or Cypher, whereby Four Letters written in Gibbirish Language..may be..explained.

1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 173 A kind of gibberish prose and verse.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 122 How oft I've bent me o'er her fire and smoke, To hear her [the gipsy's] gibberish tale so quaintly spoke.

Derivatives

† ˈgibberish v. Obsolete (intransitive) to talk gibberish; also transitive, to speak the ‘gibberish’ of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)]

rabblea1400

javerc1440

jabber1499

jabble1570

jargon1570

gabble1574

gibberish1577

gibber1604

cant1728

jibber1824

rigmarole1831

to talk through (the back of) one's neck1899

garble1913

jibber-jabber1922

jabberwock1959

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > express unintelligibly [verb (transitive)]

rabblec1430

jabber1532

gabble1566

gibberish1577

cant1592

garble1879

misspeak1890

rhubarb1962

1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 3^v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I One demaunded meryly, why O Neale..would not frame himselfe to speake English? What: quoth the other, in a rage, thinkest thou, that it standeth with O Neale his honor, to wryeth his mouth in clattering Englishe? and yet forsooth we must gagge our iawes in gybbrishing Irish.

1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 248 You understand not the state of Limbus Patrum, nor the depth of the Question, but scumme upon the surface, and gibberish you cannot tell for what.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	gibberish
释义	gibberishn.adj. /ˈdʒɪbərɪʃ//ˈɡɪbərɪʃ/ Forms: 1500s–1700s geb(b)-, gib(b)-, g(h)yb(b)rish, gib(b)r-, gib(b)eridge, -ige, (1600s geberish, guibbridge, 1700s gibbirish), 1500s– gibberish. Etymology: ? < gibber v.¹ (though that word appears later in our quots.), after names of languages in -ish suffix¹. A. n. Unintelligible speech belonging to no known language, and supposed to be of arbitrary invention; inarticulate chatter, jargon. Often applied contemptuously to blundering or ungrammatical language, to obscure and pretentious verbiage, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] jargon1340 gibberishc1557 fustiana1593 hibber-gibber1593 rabble?1593 gabbling1599 rantum-scantum1599 ribble-rabble1601 gabble1602 High Dutch1602 Greek1603 baragouin1614 galimatias1653 riddle-me-ree1678 clink-clank1679 Hebrew1705 alieniloquy1727 jabber1735 mumbo-jumbo1738 gibbering1786 rigmarole1809 gibber1832 rigmarolery1833 Babelism1834 jargoning1837 barrikin1851 abracadabra1867 double Dutch1876 jabberwock1902 jabberwocky1908 jibber-jabber1922 mumbo-jumbery1923 mumbo1931 double-talk1938 garbology1944 c1557 Enterlude of Youth (new ed.) sig. Aii^v What me thynke ye be clerkyshe For ye speake good gibbryshe. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. Other some..if they happen to here an olde word..crye out streightway, that we speak no English, but gibbrish. 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 46 They are agreed of certaine uncouth non-significant terms which goe current among themselves as the Gipsies are of Gibridge, which none but themselves can spell without a paire of Spectacles. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 200 His little infant neere, in childish gibbridge showes What addeth to his griefe. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 523 They all the while crying quarter in their barbarous gibbridge. 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i. 18 It may keep the field against a whole Army of Lawyers, and that in their own language, French Gibberish. 1700 Paper to W. Penn Pref. sig. A ij The Books of the Quakers..were generally set at nought as Gibberish. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxx. 274 He repeated some gibberish, which by the sound seemed to be Irish. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 155 Their language is in the patois of fraud; in the cant and gibberish of hypocrisy. View more context for this quotation 1803 Edinb. Rev. 2 377 The admixture of the gibberish used by the negroes. 1835 T. B. Macaulay Sir James Mackintosh in Ess. (1887) 350 A state trial was a murder preceded by the uttering of certain gibberish and the performance of certain mummeries. 1884 Stepniak in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 333 The aborigines speak an unintelligible gibberish. in combination.1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xi. 75 The babling tattle, and fond fibs, seditiously raised between the gibblegablers, and Accursian gibberish-mongers. †B. adj. Of or pertaining to gibberish, expressed in gibberish; unintelligible, unmeaning. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [adjective] gibberish1598 inarticulate1603 unarticulate1603 hi cockalorum1783 jargonal1831 jabberwocky1908 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Balchi, a..roguish, gibbrish word, vsed for money. 1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger Table sig. Iiii3^v The frauds, deceits, lyes, gibbrish language of roagues. 1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 3 That old intanglement of iniquitie, their gibrish Lawes. a1691 Baxter in Sir J. Stephen Eccl. Biog. (1850) II. 47 By his gibberish derision, persuading men that we deserve no other answer than such scorn and nonsense as beseemeth fools. 1704 Proclam. 24 Feb. in London Gaz. No. 3996/1 The Key or Cypher, whereby Four Letters written in Gibbirish Language..may be..explained. 1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 173 A kind of gibberish prose and verse. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 122 How oft I've bent me o'er her fire and smoke, To hear her [the gipsy's] gibberish tale so quaintly spoke. Derivatives † ˈgibberish v. Obsolete (intransitive) to talk gibberish; also transitive, to speak the ‘gibberish’ of. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)] rabblea1400 javerc1440 jabber1499 jabble1570 jargon1570 gabble1574 gibberish1577 gibber1604 cant1728 jibber1824 rigmarole1831 to talk through (the back of) one's neck1899 garble1913 jibber-jabber1922 jabberwock1959 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > express unintelligibly [verb (transitive)] rabblec1430 jabber1532 gabble1566 gibberish1577 cant1592 garble1879 misspeak1890 rhubarb1962 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 3^v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I One demaunded meryly, why O Neale..would not frame himselfe to speake English? What: quoth the other, in a rage, thinkest thou, that it standeth with O Neale his honor, to wryeth his mouth in clattering Englishe? and yet forsooth we must gagge our iawes in gybbrishing Irish. 1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 248 You understand not the state of Limbus Patrum, nor the depth of the Question, but scumme upon the surface, and gibberish you cannot tell for what. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.adj.c1557
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