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poppycock noun [ ˈpɒpɪkɒk ]

• nonsense.
• "he said I was talking poppycock"
Similar: nonsense, garbage, claptrap, balderdash, blather, blether, moonshine, foolishness, silliness, rubbish, tripe, hogwash, baloney, drivel, bilge, bosh, bull, bunk, guff, eyewash, piffle, phooey, hooey, malarkey, twaddle, dribble, rot, cobblers, codswallop, stuff and nonsense, tosh, cack, havers, flapdoodle, blathers, applesauce, wack, bushwa, bunkum, tommyrot, cod, gammon, toffee, crapola,
Origin: mid 19th century: from Dutch dialect pappekak, from pap ‘soft’ + kak ‘dung’.


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