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Definition of poppycock in English: poppycocknoun ˈpɒpɪkɒkˈpɑpiˌkɑk mass nouninformal Nonsense. 〈非正式〉胡说，废话，空话 he said I was talking poppycock Example sentencesExamples - Which, of course, is pure poppycock, but perhaps inevitable.
- ‘It was all absolute nonsense, complete poppycock,’ said Lennon.
- What we hear from the provincial government that there is no money is poppycock.
- This, of course, is poppycock, and Marx knew that full well.
- ‘It's absolute poppycock (that we demanded money from them),’ she said.
- Therefore, when Dr Yates argues that children should start counting from zero, we know that he is attempting to popularize poppycock.
- And to suggest that Ireland, as a sovereign Republic, should not be entitled to lay down certain conditions for citizenship on the grounds that this might somehow be racist or unjustly discriminatory is pure poppycock.
- So although that doctrine sounds wonderful, it is a lot of poppycock and codswallop to say that we should all be tolerant of everybody and should not have any standards.
- It should have been called nonsense and poppycock, but it was tempting to believe it as prices just kept rocketing.
- There are reports of dioxins and suchlike but that's poppycock.
- And all this talk of it being a man's world is pure balderdash, poppycock and gibberish.
- I've got to say that it's absolute balderdash and poppycock.
- All this poppycock about not having educated workforces, all this stuff about, well, you're crying protectionism, you're China-bashing.
- It's a load of poppycock we hear talked about us, but it's a great motivational tool.
- To address all of this, I should start by saying from the offset that I view ‘summer reading’ as a load of poppycock.
- While it is easier to cast these rumours aside as poppycock, some of them are definitely worth paying attention to.
- Currently many people care to have discussions as if they have something to say but there is no sound when they move their lips, just a bunch of poppycock.
- He said: ‘I say poppycock to claims this county is safe.’
- To a narrow-minded military man like Darling, talk of rights was poppycock.
Synonyms nonsense, rubbish, garbage, claptrap, balderdash, blather, blether, moonshine foolishness, silliness informal rot, tripe, hogwash, baloney, drivel, bilge, bosh, bull, bunk, guff, eyewash, piffle, phooey, hooey, malarkey, twaddle, dribble British informal cobblers, codswallop, stuff and nonsense, tosh, cack Scottish & Northern English informal havers North American informal flapdoodle, blathers, applesauce, wack, bushwa North American vulgar slang crapola informal, dated bunkum, tommyrot, cod, gammon, toffee
OriginMid 19th century: from Dutch dialect pappekak, from pap 'soft' + kak 'dung'. The English language has any number of curious words for ‘nonsense’, such as balderdash (late 16th century) of unknown origins, and codswallop, claptrap—first used in the modern sense by Lord Byron, and piffle (mid 19th century) from the sound. Poppycock was originally Dutch, and comes from pappekak, which meant either ‘soft dung’ or ‘doll's excrement’ Another such term is bosh, a Turkish word meaning ‘empty, worthless’ which was popularized by its frequent use in James Morier's highly successful 1834 novel Ayesha, the Maid of Kar.
Definition of poppycock in US English: poppycocknounˈpɑpiˌkɑkˈpäpēˌkäk informal Nonsense. 〈非正式〉胡说，废话，空话 he said I was talking poppycock Example sentencesExamples - While it is easier to cast these rumours aside as poppycock, some of them are definitely worth paying attention to.
- It should have been called nonsense and poppycock, but it was tempting to believe it as prices just kept rocketing.
- And all this talk of it being a man's world is pure balderdash, poppycock and gibberish.
- Which, of course, is pure poppycock, but perhaps inevitable.
- This, of course, is poppycock, and Marx knew that full well.
- Therefore, when Dr Yates argues that children should start counting from zero, we know that he is attempting to popularize poppycock.
- All this poppycock about not having educated workforces, all this stuff about, well, you're crying protectionism, you're China-bashing.
- ‘It's absolute poppycock (that we demanded money from them),’ she said.
- And to suggest that Ireland, as a sovereign Republic, should not be entitled to lay down certain conditions for citizenship on the grounds that this might somehow be racist or unjustly discriminatory is pure poppycock.
- To address all of this, I should start by saying from the offset that I view ‘summer reading’ as a load of poppycock.
- It's a load of poppycock we hear talked about us, but it's a great motivational tool.
- So although that doctrine sounds wonderful, it is a lot of poppycock and codswallop to say that we should all be tolerant of everybody and should not have any standards.
- There are reports of dioxins and suchlike but that's poppycock.
- ‘It was all absolute nonsense, complete poppycock,’ said Lennon.
- What we hear from the provincial government that there is no money is poppycock.
- Currently many people care to have discussions as if they have something to say but there is no sound when they move their lips, just a bunch of poppycock.
- I've got to say that it's absolute balderdash and poppycock.
- He said: ‘I say poppycock to claims this county is safe.’
- To a narrow-minded military man like Darling, talk of rights was poppycock.
Synonyms nonsense, rubbish, garbage, claptrap, balderdash, blather, blether, moonshine
OriginMid 19th century: from Dutch dialect pappekak, from pap ‘soft’ + kak ‘dung’. |