gobbledygook的词源

英文词源

gobbledygook (n.): also gobbledegook, "the overinvolved, pompous talk of officialdom" [Klein], 1944, American English, first used by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick, D.-Texas, (1895-1954), a grandson of the original maverick and chairman of U.S. Smaller War Plants Corporation during World War II, in a memo dated March 30, 1944, banning "gobbledygook language" and mock-threateaning, "anyone using the words activation or implementation will be shot." Maverick said he made up the word in imitation of turkey noise. Another word for it, coined about the same time, was bafflegab (1952).

来自1944年美国德克萨斯州国会议员Maury Maverick杜撰的一个词，模仿公鸡叫的声音来讽刺当时过于冗长的官样文章。同时，值得注意的是，他本人是maverick这个词的原创者Maverick的孙子。参照 maverick.

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