Wikisaurus:nonsense
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English
Noun
Sense: meaningless letter or words; or a false statement
Synonyms
- hoax
- nonsense
- ruse
- put-on
- balderdash
- baloney (US, Australia)
- bosh
- BS
- blatherskite
- bull
- bulldust
- bunk
- bunkum
- bushwah
- chinese
- claptrap
- codswallop
- drivel
- eyewash
- fiddle-faddle
- flim-flam
- folderol
- foolishness
- garbage (US)
- garble
- gibber
- gibberish
- gobbledygook
- hogwash
- hokum
- hooey (US)
- horse hockey - (Canadian)
- horsefeathers
- horse puckey
- junk [WS]
- malarkey (Ireland, US)
- manure - (usage?)
- mojibake
- nertz (US)
- pie in the sky
- piffle
- poppycock
- prattle
- rubbish (UK)
- stuff and nonsense
- talk through one's hat
- tosh (UK)
- tripe (UK)
- twaddle
- bollocks (British) (taboo)
- bullcrap (taboo)
- bullshit (taboo)
- crap (taboo)
- crock of shit (taboo)
- what a crock (taboo)
- crock (taboo)
- horseshit (US) (taboo)
Hyponyms
Usage
Often preceded by the phrase - "What a load of ....."; sometimes by "What a pile of....." or "What a bunch of....." or "What a heap of ....."
Interjection
Sense: TODO
Any of the above nouns, along with the following:
- all my eye and Betty Martin
- my arse (British), my ass (US, Canada)
- my eye
- my foot
- pull the other one
- pull the other one, it's got bells on
- you're having me on
- you're pulling my leg
See also
External links
- “absurdity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “unmeaningness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “nonsense” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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