balderdash
bal·der·dash [ ˈbȯl-dər-ˌdash]
[ˈbȯl-dər-ˌdash]
Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty
Synonyms: Synonyms
- applesauce
-
[slang],
- baloney
- (also boloney),
- beans,
- bilge,
- blah
- (also blah-blah),
- blarney,
- blather,
- blatherskite,
- blither,
- bosh,
- bull
-
[slang],
- bunk,
- bunkum
- (or buncombe),
- claptrap,
- codswallop
-
[British],
- crapola
-
[slang],
- crock,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fiddle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddlesticks,
- flannel
-
[British],
- flapdoodle,
- folderol
- (also falderal),
- folly,
- foolishness,
- fudge,
- garbage,
- guff,
- hogwash,
- hokeypokey,
- hokum,
- hoodoo,
- hooey,
- horsefeathers
-
[slang],
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- jazz,
- malarkey
- (also malarky),
- moonshine,
- muck,
- nerts
-
[slang],
- nonsense,
- nuts,
- piffle,
- poppycock,
- punk,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- senselessness,
- silliness,
- slush,
- stupidity,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- tommyrot,
- tosh,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle
Recent Examples on the Web
//The Hill, however, was a happy home for this balderdash, thanks to the famously lax editorial standards that suffuse the paper’s operations.
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Libby Watson, The New Republic, "The Rot on The Hill," 27 Sep. 2019
//Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said Johnson’s contention that Britain could continue to breeze along with its current free-trade arrangement with Europe after a no-deal departure was balderdash.
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Washington Post, "Boris Johnson says he’s prepared for a no-deal Brexit. Critics say that’s reckless.," 6 July 2019
//Then there’s Donald Glover, king of all media, who takes on the role of Lando, Han’s old frenemy, and offers a take on the character that suggests so much of his effortless cool is bluster and balderdash.
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Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, "5 things to know about Solo: A Star Wars Story," 15 May 2018
//The question is not whether these claims are balderdash.
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David A. Graham, The Atlantic, "Does Trump Believe His Own Hype?," 22 Oct. 2017
First Known Use of balderdash
1674, in the meaning defined above
History and Etymology for balderdash
Dictionary Entries near balderdash
More Synonyms and Antonyms ofbalderdash
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
- a combat veteran himself, he could not believe the balderdash he was hearing from whippersnappers with no war experience at all
- applesauce
-
[slang],
- baloney
- (also boloney),
- beans,
- bilge,
- blah
- (also blah-blah),
- blarney,
- blather,
- blatherskite,
- blither,
- bosh,
- bull
-
[slang],
- bunk,
- bunkum
- (or buncombe),
- claptrap,
- codswallop
-
[British],
- crapola
-
[slang],
- crock,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fiddle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddlesticks,
- flannel
-
[British],
- flapdoodle,
- folderol
- (also falderal),
- folly,
- foolishness,
- fudge,
- garbage,
- guff,
- hogwash,
- hokeypokey,
- hokum,
- hoodoo,
- hooey,
- horsefeathers
-
[slang],
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- jazz,
- malarkey
- (also malarky),
- moonshine,
- muck,
- nerts
-
[slang],
- nonsense,
- nuts,
- piffle,
- poppycock,
- punk,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- senselessness,
- silliness,
- slush,
- stupidity,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- tommyrot,
- tosh,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle
- absurdity,
- asininity,
- fatuity,
- foolery,
- idiocy,
- imbecility,
- inaneness,
- inanity,
- insanity,
- kookiness,
- lunacy
More Definitions forbalderdash
old-fashioned + informal : foolish words or ideas