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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

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

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

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 ).