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Balderdash   Listen
noun
Balderdash  n.  
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.





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"Balderdash" Quotes from Famous Books



... clamorously demanded his presence. After a very brief interval he appeared, and altho' he is in private life an agreeable and moderately sensible young man, he succeeded, to my mind at any rate, in making most successfully, what Mr. Anthony Weller calls 'an Egyptian Mummy of his self.' the amount of balderdash and rubbish which he evacuated (dia stomatos) about mounting the deadly breach, falling back into the arms of his comrades and going off generally in a blaze of melodramatic fireworks, really made me so unhappy that I lost my night's rest. ...
— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams
... balderdash, there's nae doubt o't. It is the crownhead o' absurdity to tak in the havers o' auld wives for gospel. I told them that my master was a peeous man, an' a sensible man; an', for praying, that he could ding auld Macmillan himsel. 'Sae could the deil,' they said, 'when he liket, ...
— The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner • James Hogg
... "Down with Germany and the Germans!" For, unless the whole —— lot are swept off the surface of the earth, there will be no peace. If the people in England could only realise the quarrelsome, deceitful, underhanded, egotistic any tyrannical character of the Germans, there would not be so much balderdash about a friendly understanding, etc., between England and Germany. The German is a born tyrant. The desire to remain with Britain on good terms will only last so long until Germany feels herself strong enough to beat England both on sea and on land: afterwards ...
— Peace Theories and the Balkan War • Norman Angell


Words linked to "Balderdash" :   piffle, nonsense, nonsensicality


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