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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incomprehensible talk or writing |
| Synonyms: | Choctaw, Greek, babble, baloney, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, hokum, hooey, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, rubbish |
| Main Entry: | blatherskite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blather |
| Synonyms: | babble, balderdash, gabble, gibberish, jabber, jabberwocky, nonsense, prate, prattle |
| Main Entry: | hooey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, blather, bombast, bull*, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, garbage, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hot air, idiocy, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, ja |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jabberwocky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | babble |
| Synonyms: | blather, blatherskite, blubbering, burble, chatter, clamor, double talk, drivel, gab, gabble, gibberish, gossip, gushing, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jargon, murmur, muttering, nonsense, prate, prattle, ranting, tattling, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | langue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | language |
| Synonyms: | accent, argot, articulation, brogue, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, doublespeak, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, lingua franca, palaver*, parlance, patois, phraseology, prose, signal, slang, sound, speech, style, talk, terminology, tongue, utterance, verbalization, vernacular, vocabulary, vocalization, voice, word, wording |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tommyrot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, blather, bombast, bull*, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, garbage, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, idiocy, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver*, piffle, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rigmarole, rot, rubbish*, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, trash*, tripe, twaddle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Tudesque, allophyllan, analytic, aphoristic, argotic, aureate, axiomatic, belletristic, bilingual, colloquial, conditional, conjugate, copulative, coradicate, current, cursive, derivative, diachronic, dialectic, diglot, effable, elliptical, emphatic, epicene, euphemism, euphuistic, expressed, factitive, feuilletonistic, flowery, formal, fustian, gazooly, glottogonic, grammatical, grandiloquent, heteroclite, hieratic, highfalutin, hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, holocryptic, holophrastic, homoglot, idiomatic, impersonal, imsonic, inaccurate, incorrect, informal, interlingual, irregular, laconic, lexical, lexicologic, lexiphanic, lingual, linguished, linguistic, literal, literary, literose, logofascinated, macaronic, monepic, monoglot, multilingual, neologic, neological, nominal, nonstandard, notorious, ornate, paradigmatic, paronomastic, paronymous, pauciloquent, periphrastic, phatic, phylacteric, pleonastic, polyglot, polysemous, polysynthetic, preterpluperfect, properispomenon, proverbial, regular, rhematic, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, sonorous, standard, substandard, suppletive, synchronic, syntactic, syntagmatic, synthetic, tautegorical, titular, togated, tralatitious, ungrammatical, verbal, vernacular, volitive, vulgar
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| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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absurd, egregious, extravagant, foolish, inconsistent, macaronic, nonsensical, preposterous, punning, quibbling, ridiculous, senseless, sophistical, unmeaning
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| Concept: | Language. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional Means; Language Generally |
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language; phraseology; speech; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's or Queen's English; dialect., confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie; pantomime (signs); onomatopoeia; betacism, mimmitation, myatism, nunnation; pasigraphy., lexicology, philogy, glossology, glottology; linguistics, chrestomathy; paleology, paleography; comparative grammar., literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship (scholar).
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