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Balderdash   /bˈɔldərdˌæʃ/   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.


verb
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."





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"Balderdash" Quotes from Famous Books



... words, Sedgwick," said Mr. Thompson approvingly. "The word I had on my tongue was—balderdash. But your thought was happier. Balderdash is a vague and shapeless term. It conjures up no definite vision. But ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... because the words of this text appear to be so carelessly put together, as to make nothing but jargon, or a sort of scholastic balderdash. But, according to Critical Note 8th, "To jumble together words without care for the sense, is an unpardonable negligence, and an abuse of the human understanding." I think the learned author should rather have said: "There are two numbers ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... the sea if you go on talking balderdash," said Bob. "Now, look here, you hain't got nothin' to do, ...
— The Lively Poll - A Tale of the North Sea • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Balderdash, Bill Davis! What have you or me to do wi' feelins o' that sort? Countryman, indeed! A fine country, as starves ten millions o' the like o' us two; an' if we try to take what by nateral right's our own, ...
— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid
... last man, wished for the downfall of Sir John Fisher. Now I am at a loss to tell whether the supervision of the foundations and drains of royal palaces is apt to qualify somebody for the judgment of naval affairs in general. As far as regards German affairs, the phrase is a piece of unmitigated balderdash, and has created immense merriment in the circles of those here who know. But I venture to think that such things ought not to be written by people who are high placed, as they are liable to hurt public feelings ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 - Who Began the War, and Why? • Various


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