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/ˈkɒdzˌwɒl.əp/ · noun
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish..
1993, J. Neville Turner, The One-Day Game – Cricket or Codswallop?, in 2001, David John Headon, The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection.
Tony: I was not. Sidney: Don’t give me that old codswallop. You were counting your money.
Just branding a programme as ‘rubbish’, ‘tripe’, or—there are a lot of these—‘codswallop’, gives little indication of what moved the viewer to write.
An interviewer from a Warsaw radio station stopped a citizen in the street. Was the recent demonstration necessary? “History will tell.” But what did he think? “I am not a historian.” Likewise Lumsden′s and Wilson′s book. If it is not a load of codswallop, it will turn out to be very important. If it is not a load of codswallop. Faites vos jeux!
“I′ve told you all I know,” Rosa Armaz told Boarski and Yermin, “I don′t know what my husband has been doing. He′d mentioned going to Mars with the children but I thought it was a load of codswallop.”
Use cod's wallop when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cod's wallop means (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish..
Common synonyms include hogswallop, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1993, J. Neville Turner, The One-Day Game – Cricket or Codswallop?, in 2001, David John Headon, The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection.
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