noun
- Confusing or meaningless language, especially technical jargon or bureaucratic speech intended to obscure rather than clarify.
Usage: informal; usually uncountable; often used critically to describe deliberately obscure communication
Examples
- The insurance policy was filled with bafflegabs that made it impossible to understand what was actually covered.
- Corporate memos often contain so much bafflegabs that employees struggle to extract the real message.
- The consultant's presentation was pure bafflegabs—lots of words but no clear meaning.
- Government regulations are frequently written in bafflegabs to confuse the average citizen.
- She cut through the bafflegabs and explained the concept in simple, everyday language.
- The lawyer's contract was loaded with legal bafflegabs that required a translator to understand.