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[ noun ] language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

As he applied the applicator extending from the machine - which consisted_of seven differently colored neon_tubes superimposed on a rectangular base - to the supposedly diseased portions of Mrs._Shaefer 's body , Lee kept_up a steady stream of pseudo scientific mumbo-jumbo .

Related terms

gibberish

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[ noun ] a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses

Synonyms

hugger-mugger

Examples

"he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"

Related terms

confusion hugger_mugger

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