gobbledygook

Meaning

Noun

• Nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language.
• Something written in an overly complex, incoherent, or incomprehensible manner.

Origin

• First attested in a memo by US Representative (Texas) Maury Maverick dated March 30, 1944, banning "gobbledygook language". Apparently coined in imitation of the sounds made by a turkey.
• Mr. Maury Maverick was, incidentally, the grandson of lawyer and politician Samuel Maverick, whose behaviour regarding his cattle inspired the term maverick ("offbeat").