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băfəl-găb noun Speaking in a way that is incomprehensible, confusing, wordy, and filled with pretentious rhetoric so that the listener(s) are perplexed or kept from understanding, especially to frustrate or prevent listener(s) from taking action. Confounding and nonsensical talk or language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions with the purpose of obscuring, confusing, hindering, and/or misleading the listener(s).
That keynote address was so full of bafflegab I am utterly perplexed.

Our team of analysts, who translate bafflegab for a living, admitted they couldn’t make sense of the candidate’s position on any of the key issues.

On standing committee, opposition back-benchers are frequently supplied with bafflegab notes by “specialist advisors”.

The effect you’re aiming at is bafflegab, so make sure you speak slowly, pronounce your words very clearly, and pause frequently while gesturing and nodding your head yes, so the audience will think your speech is historically significant.

The CFO elevated bafflegab to an art form in that quarterly earnings call.
bafflegab by PuntasticBlonde September 3, 2024

Babblegabbing

Another word that stands for "Ball Grabbing" with a male. preferably a girl to a guy. (Unless gay.)
That bitch just babblegabbed me.
Babblegabbing by Anonymous May 13, 2005

OBAFFLEGAB 

Describes the incomprehensible and pretentious verbiage used by our beloved president when he attempts to convey a thought without the use of one or all of his fifteen teleprompters. Bafflegab is related to gobbledegook.
The conservative township, as always, was polite as the president obafflegabbed ,trying to answer the simplest of questions.
OBAFFLEGAB by angusstudmuffin April 19, 2009

Bafflegasted 

The stated of being totally surprised yet completely confused as to how or what the hell just happened.
Alex was totally bafflegasted when he looked down and realized he was on a Dan.
Bafflegasted by mrchin July 29, 2010

Bafflejob 

When a girl gives you a blowjob so good that you are just baffled.
"Damn that bafflejob was so good I'm still trying to figure out why my cum hit the ceiling fan"
Bafflejob by Thebaffle September 29, 2013

Bafflegated

To be really, really confused and stressed about it.
"Argh! I can't figure out this stupid problem!", "HAHA! You are bafflegated."
Bafflegated by Adam A. April 21, 2006
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Oh man those burritos gave me the throat sweats, I hope I don’t have food poisoning.
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Person 2:......
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Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
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