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gobbledygooker

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From gobbledygook +‎ -er.

Noun

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gobbledygooker (plural gobbledygookers)

  1. A person who uses gobbledygook.
    • 1974 December, Changing Times, Washington, DC, page 2, column 1:
      Hear about the political speech-writer who cleaned his own turkey? It was a case of a gobbledegooker degooking de gobbler
    • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 110:
      [T]he "gobbledygookers" are now very much on the defensive.
    • 2005, Paul Roche, Aristophanes: The Complete Plays, New York: New American Library, page 155:
      Giddy and stinking liar,
      Gobbledygooker, oily waffler[.]