balderdash
noun/ˈbɔːldə.dæʃ/UK
Etymology
Unknown, possibly from the early English drink of wine mixed with beer or water or other substances that was sold cheaply.
Definitions
Senseless talk or writing
Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
- Where, you cried in the name of Wonder, have you been able to gather together such an old fashioned Bundlement of Scientific Balderdash?
A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
- [T]hey would no more liue vnder the yoke of the Sea, or haue their heads waſht with his bubbly ſpume or Barbers balderdaſh, [...]
Obscene language or writing.
- Trugge, therefore, (who has a foul mouth of his own, when he pleases) talked balderdash to Mrs. Sudberry, through the key-hole, which she did not answer, for, indeed, she seems a civil spoken woman, truly [...]
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To mix or adulterate.
- That which is made by the peasants, both red and white, is generally genuine: but the wine-merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeons dung and quick-lime.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for balderdash. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA