Adjacent Words

codswallop definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1963 British nonsense

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Brit. sl. nonsense. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. unkn.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something that someone has just said as codswallop, you mean that you think it is nonsense. (BRIT INFORMAL) This is a load of codswallop. = cobblers [disapproval]