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verbiage - 6 dictionary results

ver⋅bi⋅age

[vur-bee-ij]
–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.

Origin:
1715–25; < F, equiv. to MF verbi(er) to gabble + -age -age
ver·bi·age   (vûr'bē-ĭj, -bĭj)   
n.  
  1. An excess of words for the purpose; wordiness.
  2. The manner in which something is expressed in words: software verbiage.

[French, from Old French verbier, to chatter, from verbe, word, from Latin verbum; see verb.]

Verbiage

Ver"bi*age\ (?; 48), n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a word. See Verb.] The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.

Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. --W. Irving.

This barren verbiage current among men. --Tennyson.
Language Translation for : verbiage
Spanish: palabreríapalabrería,
German: das Gequassel,
Japanese: むだ口

verbiage

n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to documentation. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible subject.

verbiage 
1721, from Fr. verbiage "wordiness" (17c.), from M.Fr. verbier "to chatter," from O.Fr. verbe "word," from L. verbum "word" (see verb).

verbiage
When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to documentation. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream "verbiage" to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible subject.
[The Jargon File]

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