bafflegab
verbEtymology From baffle + gab, coined 1952.
1
Rare To use pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language.
bafflegab
noun/ˈbæfəlɡæb/
Etymology From baffle + gab, coined 1952.
1
Pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language, especially legal or bureaucratic jargon.
- 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.2015 September 29, Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, Crown, →ISBN:
- Teachout has a gift for slicing through the bafflegab and revealing that the grifter's patter disguises nothing more than unimaginative, sociopathic scams.2020 July 29, Cory Doctorow, “Break 'Em Up”, in Pluralistic, retrieved 02 Aug 2020:
- Synonyms
- gobbledygook