From Geezer to Gobbledygook

 Both of the words in the title have been around since the 1940s and it is interesting how they worked their way into everyday language. Geezer is actually from earlier in time,the 1880s where in British Cockney slang it meant a man in a mask or disguise which eventually became an old man by the 1940s. Once the geezer crossed the ocean and arrived in the US it took on a different meaning in British slang becoming any man much like "dude"or"bro" though in the US the old man meaning remained. Gobbledygook was born in a memo in 1944 from former Texas congressman Maury Maverick who banned his staff from using overly bureaucratic language (gobbledygook).