codswallop

noun cods·wal·lop \ ˈkȯdz-ˌwä-ləp , ˈkädz- \

|Updated on: 8 Jun 2018

Examples: codswallop in a Sentence

Definition of codswallop

British

: nonsense

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Examples of codswallop in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples of codswallop from the Web

And don’t forget codswallop, a word that sounds Shakespearean but was coined in 1959.

— stephen miller, WSJ, "What’s Another Word for Derp?," 29 May 2018
Mnuchin tried to double-talk this codswallop past SPW.

— charles p. pierce, Esquire, "Here's What You Get When You Put Joe Lieberman in There," 19 May 2017

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