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Balderdash Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Balderdash
(v. t.)
To mix or adulterate, as liquors.
(n.)
Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
(n.)
A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
(v. t.)
To mix or adulterate, as liquors.
(n.)
Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
(n.)
A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
| WordNet 2.0 |
balderdash
Noun
1. trivial nonsense
(synonym) fiddle-faddle, piffle
(hypernym) nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
Noun
1. trivial nonsense
(synonym) fiddle-faddle, piffle
(hypernym) nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
| ENGLISH IDIOMS 2.EDITION |
balderdash
verbose nonsense """Please switch off the talk show. It's just balderdash."""
verbose nonsense """Please switch off the talk show. It's just balderdash."""
| English Idioms WM 1.3a |
balderdash
verbose nonsense
"Please switch off the talk show. It's just balderdash."
verbose nonsense
"Please switch off the talk show. It's just balderdash."
| GLOSSARY OF ESOTERIC WORDS |
balderdash
absolute rubbish, nonsense
eg:We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.(K.VONNEGUT)
EG:"If that sounds like BALDERDASH, consider some of the ridiculous reasons the media give for soccer's lack of success in America: low-scoring, no hand-eye coordination required, hooligans, mad cows.
absolute rubbish, nonsense
eg:We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.(K.VONNEGUT)
EG:"If that sounds like BALDERDASH, consider some of the ridiculous reasons the media give for soccer's lack of success in America: low-scoring, no hand-eye coordination required, hooligans, mad cows.
| hEnglish - advanced version |
balderdash
balderdash
\bal"der*dash\ (&?;), v. t. to mix or adulterate, as liquors. the wine merchants of nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime.
balderdash
\bal"der*dash\ (&?;), n. [of uncertain origin: cf. dan. balder noise, clatter, and e. dash; hence, perhaps, unmeaning noise, then hodgepodge, mixture; or w. baldorduss a prattling, baldordd, baldorddi, to prattle.]
1. a worthless mixture, especially of liquors. indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash.
2. senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
balderdash
\bal"der*dash\ (&?;), v. t. to mix or adulterate, as liquors. the wine merchants of nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime.
balderdash
\bal"der*dash\ (&?;), n. [of uncertain origin: cf. dan. balder noise, clatter, and e. dash; hence, perhaps, unmeaning noise, then hodgepodge, mixture; or w. baldorduss a prattling, baldordd, baldorddi, to prattle.]
1. a worthless mixture, especially of liquors. indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash.
2. senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
Balderdash Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
| The Harry Potter Glossary |
Balderdash
Password to get into the Gryffindor Tower [4].
Password to get into the Gryffindor Tower [4].
Balderdash Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries