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In some senses, codswallop is marked as slang, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
codswallop
/ˈkɒdzˌwɒl.əp/
noun 1intj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
absolute, all, little, old
VERB + CODSWALLOP
heard, load
CODSWALLOP + NOUN
indication
PREP.
in
ADV.
such
Definitions
noun
1
Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish.
Tony: I was not. Sidney: Don’t give me that old codswallop. You were counting your money.
Just branding a programme as ‘rubbish’, ‘tripe’, or—there are a lot of these—‘codswallop’, gives little indication of what moved the viewer to write.
intj
1
Used to express disbelief: nonsense!; rubbish!
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Tony: I was not. Sidney: Don’t give me that old codswallop. You were counting your money.
Wiktionary02
Just branding a programme as ‘rubbish’, ‘tripe’, or—there are a lot of these—‘codswallop’, gives little indication of what moved the viewer to write.
Wiktionary03
An interviewer from a Warsaw radio station stopped a citizen in the street. Was the recent demonstration necessary? “History will tell.” But what did he think? “I am not a historian.” Likewise Lumsden
Wiktionary04
What a load of absolute codswallop.
Tatoeba · #881724505
I've never heard such codswallop in all my life.
Tatoeba · #12387024Usage Notes
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