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Balderdash definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BALD'ERDASH, n. Mean, senseless prate; a jargon of words; ribaldry; anything jumbled together without judgment.
BALD'ERDASH, v.t. To mix or adulterate liquors.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: trivial nonsense [syn: balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1674 nonsense

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. senseless talk or writing; nonsense. Etymology: earlier = 'mixture of drinks': orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. --Taylor (Drink and Welcome). 2. Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Balderdash Bal"der*dash, 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. --Smollett.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that something that has been said or written is balderdash, you think it is completely untrue or very stupid. (OLD-FASHIONED) [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Verbiage, rodomontade, gasconade, rant, bombast, fustian, froth, palaver, twaddle, chatter, trash, stuff, bosh, platitude, flummery, fudge, jargon, nonsense, prate, prating, senseless prate, jabber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gabble, drivel, frothy discourse, idle talk.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Adulterated wine.

Moby Thesaurus

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