Probably only a popinjay!
I'll admit to looking codswallop up in the dictionary. I thought I had a sense of what it meant but I don't recall when I've ever seen it used. I almost posted to X asking why she chose that particular word.
I keyed "nonsense" into the thesaurus and found all these choices. Interesting that there would be so many synonyms.
>>Entry Word: nonsense
Function: noun
Text: 1
Synonyms GIBBERISH 1, babble, drivel, Greek,
jabber, jabberwocky, skimble-skamble
2 something uttered or proposed that seems senseless
or absurd <his theories are mere nonsense>
Synonyms ||applesauce, balderdash, ||baloney, bilge,
blague, blah, blather, blatherskite, bosh, ||bull,
*bullshit, ||bunk, bunkum, bushwa, claptrap, ||cobblers,
||cock, ||codswallop, ||crap, crock, double-talk, ||drip,
drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks,
flapdoodle, flimflam, flummadiddle, fudge, ||gas,
gook, guff, hogwash, hokum, hooey, ||horsefeathers,
*horseshit, hot air, humbug, jazz, ||jiggery-pokery,
malarkey, meshuggaas, moonshine, piffle, pishposh,
poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, *shit, slipslop,
tomfoolery, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle,
whangdoodle, windbaggery
Idioms *crock of shit, stuff and nonsense |
