n.
Senseless talk; nonsense.
[Dutch dialectal pappekak : pap, pap (from Middle Dutch pappe , perhaps from Latin pappa, food) + kak, dung (from kakken, to defecate , from Middle Dutch kacken , from Latin cacāre).]
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