verbigerate

πŸ“– Definitions

verb intr.

To obsessively repeat meaningless words and phrases.

πŸ’¬ Usage Examples

β€œThen she started verbigerating β€˜Hallelujah’ for hours.” C.G. Jung; Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, Vol 3; Princeton University Press; 1960. β€œ[Raymond Poincare] never varied his ideas, seldom his expressions; for his whole term in 1922-24 he went on stubbornly verbigerating in the face of history.” Vincent Sheean; Personal History; Doubleday; 1935.
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