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Balderdash   Listen
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Balderdash  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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Balderdash" Quotes from Famous Books



... ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake's sake, as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man. Such unscientific balderdash," added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, "would have ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... you into the sea if you go on talking balderdash," said Bob. "Now, look here, you hain't got nothin' ...
— The Lively Poll - A Tale of the North Sea • R.M. Ballantyne

... Societies. However, Mr. Atwood read the Petition, which embodied the above six points, and moved its adoption. Feargus O'Connor, a well-known firebrand, seconded it in a violent speech, in which occurred the following balderdash. ...
— Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign • John Ashton

... I'm sorry for ye! Though I don't know who 'twas 'at made a fool of ye, but fool you have been made, and no mistake. Such a balderdash as that! Why, man alive, don't you s'pose if anything worth findin' had been found on Eunice's property she'd ha' told me the first one? An' me an' her livin' like sisters, so to speak, even sence I growed up, savin' the spell whilst Mr. Sprigg, he was alive. Two years ...
— The Brass Bound Box • Evelyn Raymond

... of it? Why, that your poor dear father was off his head, of course," I answered, testily. "I guessed as much that night, twenty years ago, when he came into my room. You see he evidently hurried his own end, poor man. It is absolute balderdash." ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard

... bending to the ear of her notary, "you called that stipulation balderdash; it seems to me that nothing could have been ...
— The Marriage Contract • Honore de Balzac

... a series of years Mr Bloom was rather inclined to poohpooh the suggestion as egregious balderdash for, pending that consummation devoutly to be or not to be wished for, he was fully cognisant of the fact that their neighbours across the channel, unless they were much bigger fools than he took them for, rather concealed their strength than the opposite. It was quite on ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... talking about," observed Mr. Mayne, sharply, when Dick had hazarded a remark about the Premier's policy; "you are a Radical one day, and a Conservative another. That comes of your debating societies. You take contrary sides, and mix up a balderdash of ideas, until you don't know whether you are standing on your head or your heels;" and it was after this that Dick found his refuge ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey

... had openly separated themselves from him, or even ceased to be deferential to him and proud of the relationship, but that they had more and more gone into those courses of literary Bohemianism those habits of mere facetious hack-work and balderdash, which he must have noted of late as an increasing and very ominous form of protest among the clever young Londoners against Puritanism and its belongings. The Satyr against Hypocrites by his younger nephew in 1655 had been, in reality, an Anti-Puritan and Anti-Miltonic production; and, since ...
— The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 • David Masson

... an Author can fling Art aside, And in a Book of Balderdash take Pride, Wer't not a Shame—wer't not a Shame for him A ...
— The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne • Gelett Burgess



Words linked to "Balderdash" :   nonsensicality, bunk, fiddle-faddle, piffle, nonsense



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