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balderdash

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BALDERDASH

n.Mean, senseless prate; a jargon of words; ribaldry; anything jumbled together without judgment.

 

BALDERDASH

v.t.To mix or adulterate liquors.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BALDER

Bal "der, n. Etym: [Icel. Baldr, akin to E. bold. ] (Scan. Myth. )

 

Defn: The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya. [Written also Baldur. ]

 

BALDERDASH

Bal "der *dash, n. Etym: [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.

 

BALDERDASH

BALDERDASH Bal "der *dash, v. t.

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Balder

Bal der |ˈbôldər ˈbɔldər |Scandinavian Mythology a son of Odin and god of the summer sun. He was invulnerable to all things except mistletoe, with which the god Loki, by a trick, induced the blind god Hödur to kill him.

 

balderdash

bal der dash |ˈbôldərˌdaSH ˈbɔldərˌdæʃ | ▶noun senseless talk or writing; nonsense: she dismissed talk of plots as “bunkum and balderdash. ” ORIGIN late 16th cent. (denoting a frothy liquid; later, an unappetizing mixture of drinks ): of unknown origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

Balder

Balder |ˈbɔːldə |Scandinavian Mythology a son of Odin and god of the summer sun. He was invulnerable to all things except mistletoe, with which the god Loki, by a trick, induced the blind god Hödur to kill him.

 

balderdash

balderdash |ˈbɔːldədaʃ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] senseless talk or writing; nonsense. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (denoting a frothy liquid; later, an unappetizing mixture of drinks ): of unknown origin.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

balderdash

balderdash noun See nonsense (sense 1 of the noun ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

balderdash

balderdash noun his story was a load of balderdash. See nonsense (sense 1 ).

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

balderdash

bal der dash /bɔ́ːldə r dæ̀ʃ /名詞 U ｟古 くだけて ｠でたらめ, たわごと (nonsense ).