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Verbigeration

By Renée Grinnell

Meaningless, repetitive utterances.

Example: “Peter paid plenty for piping. Plenty for piping paid Peter.”

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    Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 18 Nov 2008

 

 
 
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