Verbage
noun
1.
overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
2.
manner or style of expressing something in words; wording:
a manual of official verbiage.
noun
1.
the excessive and often meaningless use of words; verbosity
2.
(rare) diction; wording
spelling, jargon
/ver’b*j/ A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word “garbage”. Compare content-free. More pejorative than “verbiage”.
(1996-12-13)
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