| glossolalia |
| Definition: Meaningless speech, especially that emitted during a trance or as a symptom of mental illness. |
| Example: Niddy naddy nooping'n biddy bop booping lee lee lee low low. |
| Etymology: The word derives from the Greek glossa, tongue or language + lalia, a speaking (from lalein, to speak). |
| Oxford English Dictionary: The word's first OED citation is from 1879: "Those soliloquies of ecstatic spiritual emotion which were known as Glossolalia, or, ‘the Gift of Tongues’." ( Farrar St. Paul I. 52) |