Definition of poppycock
: empty talk or writing : nonsense
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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
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For a website that proclaims it is providing the truth and nothing but the facts, this line about the tax cuts and economic growth is poppycock.
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Origin and Etymology of poppycock
Dutch dialect pappekak, literally, soft dung, from Dutch pap pap + kak dung
poppycock Synonyms
Synonyms
balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blarney, blather, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, drivel, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, nonsense, piffle, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twaddle;
Near Antonyms
levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness;
common sense, horse sense, sense;
discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom;
Related Words
absurdity, asininity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy;
absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness;
monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery;
gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole);
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