balderdash
senseless, stupid, or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense.
Obsolete. a muddled mixture of liquors.
Origin of balderdash
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How to use balderdash in a sentence
But all this is ugly balderdash, which expresses not a single character nor feature.
The Sorrows of Young Werther | J.W. von GoetheJust as an able-minded man will sit down for hours and fiddle over the puzzle column in a Sunday balderdash.
Murder in Any Degree | Owen JohnsonIt is scarcely to be wondered at that such balderdash disgusted and even enraged Beethoven.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock ThayerThe man who formulated the materialist conception of history could not by any possibility utter such balderdash.
Socialism | John Spargo"Don't be taken in by such balderdash, Madame," said the exasperated doctor.
British Dictionary definitions for balderdash
/ (ˈbɔːldəˌdæʃ) /
stupid or illogical talk; senseless rubbish
Origin of balderdash
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