The word **”gobbledygook”** originated in the United States and was first coined in 1944 by Texas Congressman Maury Maverick. Maverick used it to describe the overly complex, jargon-filled language often used by bureaucrats and officials that made documents confusing or difficult to understand. He was reportedly inspired by the way a turkey gobbles, suggesting that bureaucratic speech was similarly meaningless and noisy, much like the incomprehensible gobbling sounds of a turkey. The term quickly caught on and became widely used to refer to language that is needlessly complicated or unclear.