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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



... columns with a story of the Peninsular war, announcing it as "by the author of Charles O'Malley." Heaven knows that injured individual has sins enough of his own to answer for, without fathering a whole foundling hospital of American balderdash; but this kidnapping spirit of brother Jonathan would seem to be the fashion of the day! Not content with capturing Macleod, who unhappily ventured within his frontier, he must come over to Ireland and lay hands on Harry Lorrequer. Thus difficulties are thickening every day. When they dispose ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... whence came the hum of every kind of handiwork that can be carried on at home. In one of the narrowest parts of the street a small newspaper shop made him stop. It was betwixt a hairdresser's and a tripeseller's, and had an outdoor display of idiotic prints, romantic balderdash mixed with filthy caricatures fit for a barrack-room. In front of these 'pictures,' a lank hobbledehoy stood lost in reverie, while two young girls nudged each other and jeered. He felt inclined to slap their faces, but he hurried across the road, for Fagerolles' ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
... that there can scarcely be a cockney so spoony as not to "spy a great peard under her muffler," and know that it is a man awkwardly masquerading in women's clothes. It is a libel on the women of the country, to put such balderdash into the mouth of one who may be supposed to have been finished at ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various
... 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
... from either of his nephews. Not that they had openly separated themselves from him, or even ceased to be deferential to him and proud of the relationship, but that they had more and more gone into those courses of literary Bohemianism those habits of mere facetious hack-work and balderdash, which he must have noted of late as an increasing and very ominous form of protest among the clever young Londoners against Puritanism and its belongings. The Satyr against Hypocrites by his younger nephew in 1655 had been, in reality, an Anti-Puritan and Anti-Miltonic production; and, since ...
— The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 • David Masson


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