language or a ceremony that seems complicated and important but is actually without real sense or meaning synonym nonsense繁琐严肃但无意义的语言(或仪式);繁文缛节;胡言乱语 religious/medical/bureaucratic mumbo jumbo 宗教/医学/官僚的胡言乱语 I won’t have anything to do with spiritualism, ghosts and all that mumbo jumbo. 我不会和招魂术、鬼魂和那些胡言乱语有任何关系。
More Like This Reduplicative wordsReduplicative wordsWord Originmid 18th cent. (as Mumbo Jumbo, denoting a supposed African idol): of unknown origin; the current sense dates from the late 19th cent.