Balderdash

Quick meaning: Balderdash is a noun meaning Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.

Meaning

Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
2. (obsolete) Obscene language or writing.
3. (archaic) To mix or adulterate.

Example Sentences

[T]hey would no more liue vnder the yoke of the Sea, or haue their heads waſht with his bubbly ſpume or Barbers balderdaſh, [...]

Where, you cried in the name of Wonder, have you been able to gather together such an old fashioned Bundlement of Scientific Balderdash?

Trugge, therefore, (who has a foul mouth of his own, when he pleases) talked balderdash to Mrs. Sudberry, through the key-hole, which she did not answer, for, indeed, she seems a civil spoken woman, truly [...]

Charles Gould assumed that if the appearance of listening to deplorable balderdash must form part of the price he had to pay for being left unmolested, the obligation of uttering balderdash personally was by no means included in the bargain.

Word Forms

• balderdashes
• balderdashing
• balderdashed

Synonyms for balderdash

Depending on context, synonyms include bunk, drivel, folderol, piffle, poppycock, rubbish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include piffle, codswallop, hogwash, poppycock, nonsense, rubbish.

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