poppycock

poppycock
n
1. nonsense, falderal, gibberish, Jabberwocky; babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bavardage; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit. twattle, twattling; blather, blathering, drivel, driveling, drool, drooling; jargon, Sl. jive, Greek, Chiefly Southern U.S. Choctaw; hocus-pocus, mumbo jumbo, abracadabra, fiddle-de-dee; moonshine, gobbledegook, foolish humbug, foam, froth, bunkum or buncombe, Sl. bunk, U.S. Sl. blah; flummery, Inf. hokum, Sl. applesauce, Sl. eyewash.
2. rubbish, Sl. tripe, refuse, Dial. culch, chaff, trash, Inf. truck, trumpery; tommyrot, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. crap, Sl. crock, Sl. bull; balderdash, hogwash, swill, Sl. horsefeathers; stuff, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. Inf. gammon, Brit. Sl. tosh; fudge, foolishness, folly, rigmarole or rigamarole, am-phigory; footle, Inf. malarkey, Sl. bushwa, Sl. baloney, Sl. bilge or bilge water, Sl. meshugaas, Scot, and North Eng. haver; All Inf. fiddle-faddle, piffle, hooey, kibosh, flapdoodle.
3. idle talk, Inf. gab, Sl. gas, palaver, palaverment; claptrap, rodomontade, fustian, bombast, rant, Sl. hot air; jabber, prate, patter, gabble; clack, clatter, rattling, Sl. running off or on at the mouth; chatter, prattle, chippering, cackling; chitchat, chitter-chatter, small talk, Anglo-Indian. bukh.

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  • Poppycock — from the Dutch pappekak, which literally means soft dung or diarrhea (from Dutch pap pap + kak dung) is an interjection meaning nonsense or balderdash .Poppycock is a brand of candied popcorn. Though it is marketed in a variety of combinations,… …   Wikipedia

  • poppycock — 1865, probably from Du. dialect pappekak, from M.Du. pappe soft dung (see PAP (Cf. pap)) + kak dung, from L. cacare to excrete …   Etymology dictionary

  • poppycock — *nonsense, twaddle, drivel, bunk, balderdash, gobbledygook, trash, rot, bull …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • poppycock — [n] nonsense babble, balderdash*, baloney*, bull*, bunk*, drivel, empty talk, foolery, foolishness, gibberish, hogwash*, hooey*, hot air*, jive*, malarkey, mumbo jumbo*, palaver, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash*; concepts 230,388,633 …   New thesaurus

  • poppycock — ► NOUN informal ▪ nonsense. ORIGIN Dutch dialect pappekak, from pap soft + kak dung …   English terms dictionary

  • poppycock — ☆ poppycock [päp′ē käk΄ ] n. [Du pappekak, lit., soft dung] Informal foolish talk; nonsense …   English World dictionary

  • poppycock — n. nonsense. (From Dutch.) □ I’ve heard enough of your poppycock. □ That’s nothing but poppycock …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • poppycock —    (POP pee kok) [Dutch: soft dung] Nonsense; hogwash; humbug; pretentious talk.    This is just so much literary poppycock …   Dictionary of foreign words and phrases

  • poppycock — noun (U) old fashioned nonsense: He s talking absolute poppycock! …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • poppycock — noun Etymology: Dutch dialect pappekak, literally, soft dung, from Dutch pap pap + kak dung Date: 1865 empty talk or writing ; nonsense …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • poppycock — poppycockish, adj. /pop ee kok /, n. nonsense; bosh. [1840 50, Amer.; perh. < D pappekak, equiv. to pappe PAP1 + kak excrement] Syn. balderdash, bunk, hogwash, rubbish. * * * …   Universalium

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