fuzzword

fuzzword

An intentionally vague or confusing term. Spare me the fuzzwords and just tell me what's really going on here.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fuzzword

n. a confusing term usually meant to obscure meaning. (see also buzzword.) The current crop of fuzzwords contains a few that have come back from the twenties.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • save someone's skin
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • other than
  • other than (something)
  • pillow-biter
  • it's dogged that does it
References in periodicals archive
Here are a few: jobsworth, magalog, glocal, wimmin, hothousing, compassion fatigue, flak catcher, fuzzword, factoid, golden retriever (with a new spin).
Tune in to your leading linguistic indicators
Eade (Eds.), Deconstructing development discourse: Buzzwords and fuzzwords (pp.
What Do We Mean When We Talk About Transparency? Toward Meaningful Transparency in Commercial Content Moderation
Buzzwords and fuzzwords: deconstructing development discourse.
Governance and capacity to manage resilience of health systems: Towards a new conceptual framework
Eade (eds), Deconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords, Rugby, UK, Practical Action Publishing, 2011, pp111-122; Andrea Cornwall and Karen Brock, 'What Do Buzzwords Do for Development Policy?
DISRUPTING DISEMPOWERMENT: FEMINISM, CO-OPTATION, AND THE PRIVATISED GOVERNANCE OF GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT
Issue 4-5 of the journal Development in Practice, 17, 2007 is devoted to a deconstruction of such key words and Andrea Cornwall (2007:471) in an article entitled Buzzwords and Fuzzwords: Deconstructing Development Discourse, makes the following observation " Development's buzzwords are not only passwords to funding and influence...
Communication for social change, making theory count
Cornwall A,, 'Introductory overview--buzzwords and fuzzwords: deconstructing development discourse' in Cornwall A and Eade D, eds, Deconstructing Development Discourse, Buzz Words and Fuzz Words, Oxfam, Warkwickshire (2010): 1-18.
Youth participation in local and national development in Ghana: 1620-2013
No wonder a former aide once told Fortune magazine, "She's progressive at the core." If she becomes president, we'll probably get what we got in the 1970s: a pro-government agenda clad in polyester fuzzwords.
That '70s candidate: Jimmy Carter with helmet hair
While these fuzzwords are dulling the listeners' capacity for critical thinking, the "contrasting" words are calling forth demonic images.
Tongue of Newt: the political power of language