Green’s Dictionary of Slang

used to denote a variety of pretentious or incomprehensible jargon, e.g. ecobabble, technobabble.

[1593		G. Harvey Pierce’s Supererogation 48: Some parte of his phantasticall bibble-babble, and capricious panges, might haue been tollerated in a greene, and wild youth].
[1597		G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe D: Awaye with your confused bibble babble].
2000		Indep. on Sun. Culture 30 Jan. 12: Artbabble from dealers and artists.
2000		Association of British Drivers 🌐 In this analysis of Tony Blair’s speech to the CBI & Green Alliance in October 2000, the ABD debunks the ecobabble and green mythology that is leading UK plc into a third world oblivion.
2000		whatis.techtarget.com 🌐 In information technology and other specialized areas, technobabble is the use of technical or ‘insider’ terms that, to the uninitiated, have no meaning. Technobabble can be divided into (1) technical terms with some formal standing in language [...] (2) marketing terms in which terms with prior meaning are given new missions [...] and (3) informal, colloquial, or jargon terms (of which technobabble itself would seem to be an example).