Balderdash

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Balderdash \Bal"der*dash\, n. [Of uncertain origin: cf. Dan.
     balder noise, clatter, and E. dash; hence, perhaps, unmeaning
     noise, then hodgepodge, mixture; or W. baldorduss a
     prattling, baldordd, baldorddi, to prattle.]
     1. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
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              Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both
              name and nature, and is called balderdash. --Taylor
                                                    (Drink and
                                                    Welcome).
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     2. Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Balderdash \Bal"der*dash\, v. t.
     To mix or adulterate, as liquors.
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           The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and
           even
           mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. --Smollett.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  balderdash
       n : trivial nonsense [syn: {fiddle-faddle}, {piffle}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "balderdash":
     absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, bibble-babble, bilge,
     blabber, blather, bombast, bombastry, bosh, bushwa, claptrap,
     double-talk, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee,
     flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon,
     gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, highfalutin,
     hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, jabber, jargon, malarkey,
     mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense,
     palaver, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade,
     rot, rubbish, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence,
     trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing,
     waffling