falderal

falderal
n
1. nonsense, 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, open-sesame, fiddle-de-dee; moonshine, gobbledegook, humbug, foam, froth, bunkum or buncombe, Sl. bunk, U.S. Sl. blah; flummery, Inf. hokum, Sl. applesauce, Sl. eyewash; 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 riga-marole, amphigory; footle, Inf. malarkey, Sl. bushwa, Sl. baloney, Sl. bilge or bilge water, Sl. meshugaas, Scot, and North Eng. haver; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. hooey, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle; idle talk, Inf. gab, Sl. gas, Sl. hot air; jabber, prate, patter, gabble; clack, clatter, rattling, Sl. run-ningoff or on at the mouth; chatter, prattle, chipper-ing, cackle; chit-chat, chitter-chatter, small talk, Anglo-Indian. bukh.
2. trifle, trinket, gewgaw, bagatelle, kickshaw; gim-crack, whim-wham, knickknack; bauble, small ornament, charm, bit of jewelry, bijou; frippery, gimcrack-ery, trumpery

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  • falderal — [fäl′də räl΄] n. [nonsense syllables] FOLDEROL …   English World dictionary

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