eyewash vs gibberish

eyewash

noun
  • Nonsense, flattery, or pretentiousness. 

  • A soothing medicated lotion for the eyes. 

  • The washing out of the eyes with copious water (usually water alone) to quickly remove an irritant, as for example in laboratories and industrial plants. 

verb
  • To keep information secret by sending false information to many people in one's own organization, and correct information to a select few. 

  • To fool with nonsense or flattery. 

gibberish

noun
  • Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless. 

  • Needlessly obscure or overly technical language. 

  • A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word. 

adj
  • unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless 

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