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- noun chiefly UK, film Background noise of several "conversations," none of which is decipherable since all the actors are actually just repeating the word
rhubarb (chosen because it contains no very sharp or recognisablephonemes ), or other words with similarattributes . - noun chiefly UK, pejorative Speech which is undecipherable to the
listener because it is in alanguage he or she does notunderstand ;mumbo jumbo . - noun chiefly UK
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Etymologies
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From rhubarb, sense 3
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tankhughes commented on the word rhubarb rhubarb
A rare example of reduplication that isn't contrastive focus reduplication as in "Do you like him or do you like-like him?" where repeating the word denotes that the core meaning is the one that you mean. "Did you take a subway train or a train train?"
November 29, 2022