words that have no meaning or are impossible to understand synonym nonsense莫名其妙的话;胡话;令人费解的话 You were talking gibberish in your sleep. 你在睡梦里讲着呓语。 After a while I stopped listening to his stream of gibberish. 过了一会儿,我不再听他胡言乱语。 She was mumbling a strange gibberish as she prepared the mixture. 她一边准备混合物,一边喃喃地说着奇怪的胡言乱语。
Word Originearly 16th cent.: perhaps from gibber (but recorded earlier) + the suffix -ish (denoting a language as in Spanish, Swedish, etc.).