codswallop
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noun \ˈkȯdz-ˌwä-ləp, ˈkädz-\Definition of CODSWALLOP
British : nonsense
See Examples of CODSWALLOP
- That is a load of codswallop.
- <a trendy London restaurant serving bizarre concoctions that anyone with a brain and a stomach would dismiss as codswallop>
Origin of CODSWALLOP
origin unknown
First Known Use: 1963
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- Synonyms
- applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, nonsense [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle
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