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S: (n) nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

S: (n) absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness (a message whose content is at variance with reason)
S: (n) amphigory, nonsense verse (nonsensical writing (usually verse))
S: (n) balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle (trivial nonsense)
S: (n) buzzword, cant (stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition)
S: (n) cobblers (nonsense) "I think that is a load of cobblers"
S: (n) crock (nonsense; foolish talk) "that's a crock"
S: (n) fa la, fal la (meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong)
S: (n) gibberish, gibber (unintelligible talking)

S: (n) abracadabra (gibberish and nonsense)
S: (n) babble, babbling, lallation (gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby)
S: (n) blather, blatherskite (foolish gibberish)
S: (n) double Dutch (an incomprehensible talk)
S: (n) double talk (deliberately unintelligible gibberish)
S: (n) jabber, jabbering, gabble (rapid and indistinct speech)
S: (n) mumbo jumbo (language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion)

S: (n) incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility (nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible)

S: (n) word salad (jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia)

S: (n) jabberwocky (nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll))
S: (n) mummery, flummery (meaningless ceremonies and flattery)
S: (n) palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric (loud and confused and empty talk) "mere rhetoric"
S: (n) rigmarole, rigamarole (a set of confused and meaningless statements)
S: (n) shmegegge, schmegegge ((Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense)
S: (n) stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock (senseless talk) "don't give me that stuff"
S: (n) baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle (pretentious or silly talk or writing)

W: (v) piffle [Related to: piffle] (act in a trivial or ineffective way)
W: (v) piffle [Related to: piffle] (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)