Samuel Maverick's Grandson coined a word what is it (1944)
Samuel Maverick was the man who did not brand his cattle(hence: "Maverick")

Coined by Maury Maverick while he was serving in the U.S. House of Representatives during World War II.


Now fast-forward a hundred years or so, to when Sam Maverick's grandson, Maury Maverick, was serving in the U.S. House of Representatives during World War II. Charged with overseeing factory production for the war effort, Rep. Maverick coined the marvelous word "gobbledygook" to describe the impenetrable bureaucratic jargon and doubletalk he encountered. He later explained that he based the word on the behavior of turkeys (the flying kind) back in Texas, who were "... always gobbledygobbling and strutting with ludicrous pomposity. At the end of this gobble there was a sort of gook." Sounds a lot like C-SPAN, doesn't it?
See: The Word Detective

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