bafflegab

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language, especially legal or bureaucratic jargon. uncountable
    — Toss in a few technical terms that most people don't understand—"stochastic" this, "regression" that—and you can use people's justified respect for math and science to get them nodding along. This is granularity as bafflegab.
动词 v.
  1. To use pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language. rare

词形变化

bafflegabs present,singular,third-person bafflegabbing participle,present bafflegabbed participle,past bafflegabbed past

词源

词源 1
From baffle + gab, coined 1952.
词源 2
From baffle + gab, coined 1952.
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