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OP I'm moved by dale's steadfast search for neologisms to start this thread, in hopes that it will be picked up and followed by others. (to define my term, let's arbitrarily say "a word coined in my lifetime".)
bafflegab
[f. BAFFLE v. + GAB n.]
Official or professional jargon which confuses more than it clarifies; gobbledegook.
1952 Daily Tel. 23 Jan. 4/6 A new word for lovers of officialese is bafflegab, invented by Mr. Milton A. Smith, assistant general counsel for the American Chamber of Commerce. He has won a prize for the word--and its definition: ‘Multiloquence characterised by a consummate interfusion of circumlocution..and other familiar manifestations of abstruse expatiation commonly utilised for promulgations implementing procrustean determinations by governmental bodies.’
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