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balderdash
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Balderdash is an American television panel game show that aired on PAX TV from August 2, 2004 to October 8, 2004 with repeats airing until April 22. It was hosted by Elayne Boosler and announced by John Moschitta . The game was based on the board game of ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 senseless talk or writing; nonsense. 2 (context archaic English) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. vb. (context archaic English) To mix or adulterate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, of unknown origin; originally a jumbled mix of liquors (milk and beer, beer and wine, etc.), transferred 1670s to "senseless jumble of words." From dash ; first element perhaps cognate with Danish balder "noise, clatter" (see boulder ).
Usage examples of balderdash.
Mr Bloom was rather inclined to poohpooh the suggestion as egregious balderdash for, pending that consummation devoutly to be or not to be wished for, he was fully cognisant of the fact that their neighbours across the channel, unless they were much bigger fools than he took them for, rather concealed their strength than the opposite.
His focus had been entirely on the captain's argument with the officious clerk, and he'd dismissed the statement as just another of the captain's Niagara Falls of balderdash and bunkum.