As I may have mentioned, I love words. Well today’s Blogging 101 challenge is to ‘find an event from the listings and participate in the next round.’ I had a good look through all those events I can tell you, and as soon as I came across the Word For Wednesday event I knew that this was the one for me!
My word of the day has got to be ‘gobbledegook’! It’s great isn’t it? All those gs and os. A very round, voluptuous word in my opinion, a bit like me actually!
The definition of gobbledegook is ‘pretentious or unintelligible jargon, such as used by officials.’ Hmmmm not very exciting but it sounds great when enunciated.
This word is now becoming obsolete as it is deemed to be ‘old-fashioned’. However, I too am old-fashioned and I think this word deserves to get a bit more usage!
What say you?

I LOVE it… the onomatopoeic power of it must be forever preserved…
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Absolutely, thanks Wendy 🙂
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Great word. I don’t think it’s pretentious at all either.
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Hi Bekki and thanks so much for commenting. I am glad you liked my word too 🙂
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It always makes me think of a turkey (gobble) walking through mud (gook)
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Ha Ha! What a great thought! I love it! Thank you so much for coming over and sharing your thoughts 🙂
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Something like flibbertygibbet or will-o-the-wisp or higgeldy-piggeldy, right ?
Thanks for sharing !
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Yes, They are magnificent words as well. Definitely worthy of a mention.
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I agree! It’s a wonderfully, whimsical word worth preserving. I shall make an effort to use it today. 🙂
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Oh yes, please do! Let me know if you managed to! 🙂
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Love it and now I am obsessed with finding all the words that will successfully rhyme with it!
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Go for it Daleen! Can’t wait to see what you come up with, 🙂
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Don’t get your hopes up! I am aiming for single word rhyme here, and so far – nothing!
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Not an easy task you have there!
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Actually gobbledegook is a word I do tend to use and it’s a lovely word. I really enjoyed the way you described it. We certainly have some amazing vocabulary in the English language – no wonder its so hard for people to learn as a second language!
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Love gobbledegook what a great word. I like this challenge as I already do Wordcrush Wednesday I may add this one and then I won’t forget to do it.
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I really enjoyed it as well 🙂
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Thanks for the great idea Edwina I went and did that challenge and had fun reading the other blogs as well as yours.
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That’s great 🙂
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great word.
I love the word hooey as in ‘what a bunch of hooey!” (nonsense)
And kludge as in “I think I can kludge something together” (make something work in a non-traditional way).
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Hooey is good, but I love ‘kludge’. Never heard it before, but I like the way it sounds! 🙂
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