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Answer for the clue "Trivial nonsense ", 10 letters:
balderdash

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Balderdash is a board game of bluffing and trivia created by Laura Robinson and Paul Toyne, of Toronto, Ontario Canada. The game was first released in 1984, under Canada Games . It was later picked up by a U.S company, The Games Gang, and eventually became ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] A worthless mixture, especially of ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Too bad the yarn is interwoven with illogic, inconsistency and outright balderdash .

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 ).

Wiktionary 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.

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.