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verbiage

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ver⋅bi⋅age

  [vur-bee-ij]
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–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
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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.]
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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]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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