Synonyms
- applesauce [slang]
- balderdash
- baloney
- boloney
- beans
- bilge
- blah
- blah-blah
- blarney
- blather
- blatherskite
- blither
- bosh
- bull [slang]
- bunk
- bunkum
- buncombe
- claptrap
- codswallop [British]
- crapola [slang]
- crock
- drivel
- drool
- fiddle
- fiddle-faddle
- fiddlesticks
- flannel [British]
- flapdoodle
- folderol
- falderal
- folly
- foolishness
- fudge
- garbage
- guff
- hogwash
- hokeypokey
- hokum
- hoodoo
- hooey
- horsefeathers [slang]
- humbug
- humbuggery
- jazz
- malarkey
- malarky
- moonshine
- muck
- nerts [slang]
- nonsense
- nuts
- piffle
- punk
- rot
- rubbish
- senselessness
- silliness
- slush
- stupidity
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- tommyrot
- tosh
- trash
- trumpery
- twaddle
Examples of poppycock in a Sentence
That's a lot of poppycock!
starting with the cherry tree, much of what was written by Washington's early biographers was pure poppycock
Recent Examples on the Web
Buckingham Palace simply couldn’t abide someone in its circle saying poppycock.
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Vulture, 29 Aug. 2023
This is, as Raymond Reddington might say, utter poppycock.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2023
That's all a bunch of poppycock.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2022
McVay was tired of the poppycock.
—Dallas News, 21 Sep. 2021
The notion that price is a construct is poppycock.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
Taylor had said in the weeks leading up to his exit that Utah was the place for him and that Whittingham was the mentor for him, all of which was poppycock.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
Skeptics pounced on the proclamation as pure poppycock—and for understandable reasons.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 13 May 2022
Others dismiss the idea of such a romance as poppycock.
—Colleen A. Sheehan, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2021
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Vulture, 29 Aug. 2023
This is, as Raymond Reddington might say, utter poppycock.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2023
That's all a bunch of poppycock.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2022
McVay was tired of the poppycock.
—Dallas News, 21 Sep. 2021
The notion that price is a construct is poppycock.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
Taylor had said in the weeks leading up to his exit that Utah was the place for him and that Whittingham was the mentor for him, all of which was poppycock.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
Skeptics pounced on the proclamation as pure poppycock—and for understandable reasons.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 13 May 2022
Others dismiss the idea of such a romance as poppycock.
—Colleen A. Sheehan, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2021
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Word History
Etymology
Dutch dialect pappekak, literally, soft dung, from Dutch pap pap + kak dung
First Known Use
1852, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near poppycock
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“Poppycock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poppycock. Accessed 8 Dec. 2023.
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