A compact dictionary of stuff-and-nonsense words
DEAR RICHARD LEDERER: I was gobsmacked (a fun word too) to hear for the first time the word bafflegab, which means exactly what it sounds like. Unfortunately, there’s so much of it these days. –Cindy Veinot, Chicago Bafflegab, which entered American English in 1952, does indeed mean “unintelligible jargon.” Words that describe words that […]