1.
[syn: balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both
name and nature, and is called balderdash. --Taylor
(Drink and
Welcome).
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2. Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Balderdash \Bal"der*dash\, v. t.
To mix or adulterate, as liquors.
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The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and
even
mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. --Smollett.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
balderdash
n 1: trivial nonsense [syn: balderdash, fiddle-faddle,
piffle]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "balderdash":
absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, bibble-babble, bilge,
blabber, blather, bombast, bombastry, bosh, bushwa, claptrap,
double-talk, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee,
flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon,
gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, highfalutin,
hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, jabber, jargon, malarkey,
mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense,
palaver, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade,
rot, rubbish, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence,
trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing,
waffling