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bafflegab
noun
verbose language that is difficult to penetrate and impossible to understand US
The term, by all accounts, was coined by Milton A. Smith of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Smith defined the term as “Multiloquence characterized by consummate interfusion of circumlocution or periphrasis, inscrutability, incognizability, and other familiar manifestations of abstruse expatiation commonly utilized for promulgations implementing procrustean determinations by governmental bodies”.- — Word Study, p. 5, May 1952
- Mutual funds are diversifying to the point where you can completely lose your way in this financial industry without a bafflegab guide. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 52, 7 January 1970
- Connoisseurs of bureaucratic bafflegab may salivate over this May 12 memo from Robertio Alioto. — San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 1980
- The crackdown on bafflegab was sought by Councillors Howard Moscoe (North York Spadina) and Chris Stockwell (Lakeshore-Queensway). — Toronto Star, p. A1, 21 November 1989
- Bafflegab is still an official language for Parliament Hill and provincial capitals–even city halls–despite a federal anti-babble policy and recent efforts to simplify the written word. — Toronto Star, p. A12, 17 January 1994
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