rhubarb rhubarb
Blah blah; etc, etc.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
Blah blah; etc, etc.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK
(film) Background noise of simultaneous conversations, none of which is decipherable since the actors are repeating the word rhubarb or other words with similar attributes.
1981: Tony Harrison, The Rhubarbarians I in collection ''Continuous: 50 sonnets from 'The School of Eloquence' ''. Rex Collings, London (1981)
Origin: Chosen as a word for producing indistinct background noise because it contains no very sharp or recognizable phonemes: see rhubarb. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK
(pejorative) Speech which is undecipherable to the listener because it is in a language he or she does not understand; mumbo jumbo.
: Those glottals glugged like poured pop, each /rebarbative syllable, remembrancer, raise /‘mob' rhubarb-rhubarb to a tribune's speech /crossing the crackle as the hayracks blaze...
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