GIBBERISH


Meaning of GIBBERISH in English

/ ˈdʒɪbərɪʃ; NAmE / noun

[ U ] ( informal ) words that have no meaning or are impossible to understand

SYN nonsense :

You were talking gibberish in your sleep.

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WORD ORIGIN

early 16th cent.: perhaps from gibber (but recorded earlier) + the suffix -ish (denoting a language as in Spanish , Swedish , etc.).

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.