Gibberish vs Babylike - What's the difference?
gibberish | babylike |
speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless
* Hawthorne
needlessly obscure or overly technical language
Resembling a baby, or something associated with a baby.
* {{quote-news, year=2000, date=August 11, author=Tori Marlan, title=A Most Dangerous Method, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=He told an English newspaper that he'd observed a woman tied to Robinson by a rope that represented an umbilical cord; on a subsequent visit he saw the same woman wearing diapers, sucking her thumb, and making babylike noises. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=June 4, author=Cliff Doerksen, title=True Crime?, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Rather, it had more to do with the still babylike Macek enjoying the touch, feel, and smell of the softer cotton fabric the crotch was made of, avoiding the coarser cotton in the rest of the panty. }}
As adjectives the difference between gibberish and babylike
is that gibberish is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless while babylike is resembling a baby, or something associated with a baby.As a noun gibberish
is speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.gibberish
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.
Synonyms
* gibber * See alsoSee also
* double Dutch * framis * gobbledygook, gobbledegook * galimatias * jargon * mumbo jumbo * nonsense * rhubarb rhubarbReferences
babylike
English
Adjective
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