'Balderdash' definitions:
Definition of 'balderdash'
(from WordNet)
noun
Trivial nonsense [syn: balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle]
Definition of 'Balderdash'
From: GCIDE
- Balderdash \Bal"der*dash\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. --Taylor (Drink and Welcome). [1913 Webster]
- 2. Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Balderdash'
From: GCIDE
- Balderdash \Bal"der*dash\, v. t. To mix or adulterate, as liquors. [1913 Webster]
- The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. --Smollett. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'balderdash'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurdity,
- amphigory,
- babble,
- babblement,
- bibble-babble,
- bilge,
- blabber,
- blather,
- bombast,
- bombastry,
- bosh,
- bushwa,
- claptrap,
- double-talk,
- drivel,
- drool,
- eyewash,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddledeedee,
- flummery,
- folderol,
- fudge,
- fustian,
- gabble,
- galimatias,
- gammon,
- gibber,
- gibberish,
- gibble-gabble,
- gobbledygook,
- highfalutin,
- hocus-pocus,
- hot air,
- humbug,
- jabber,
- jargon,
- malarkey,
- mumbo jumbo,
- narrishkeit,
- niaiserie,
- nonsense,
- pack of nonsense,
- palaver,
- prate,
- prattle,
- rant,
- rigamarole,
- rigmarole,
- rodomontade,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- skimble-skamble,
- stuff and nonsense,
- stultiloquence,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- twiddle-twaddle,
- vaporing,
- waffling