Noun: mumbo jumbo 'múm-bow'júm-bow
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Meaningless or unnecessarily complicated language or ritual
"The technical jargon sounded like mumbo jumbo to the layperson";
- hocus-pocus
- Incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists
"pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo and pontifical hooey";
- gobbledygook [informal], bafflegab [N. Amer, informal], gobbledegook [informal]
Derived forms: mumbo jumbos
Type of: gibber, gibberish, jargon
Encyclopedia: Mumbo jumbo