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balderdash 音标拼音: [b'ɔldɚd ,æʃ] n. 胡言乱语,梦呓 胡言乱语,梦呓 balderdash n 1: trivial nonsense [ synonym: { balderdash}, { fiddle- faddle}, { piffle}] 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]
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] 61 Moby Thesaurus words for " balderdash": 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
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