poppycock

(pŏp'ē-kŏk')
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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Something that does not have or make sense: balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash, twaddle. Informal tommyrot. Slang applesauce, baloney, bilge, bull¹, bunk², crap, hooey, malarkey. See knowledge/ignorance.

noun
noun, orig US

Nonsense, 'rubbish', 'balderdash'. (1852 —) .

[From Dutch dialect pappekak soft excrement.]

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - sludder og vrøvl

Nederlands (Dutch)
onzin

Français (French)
n. - sornettes, balivernes

Deutsch (German)
n. - (Slang) Mumpitz

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανοησίες, κουραφέξαλα

Italiano (Italian)
stupidaggini, cazzate

Português (Portuguese)
n. - papo furado (m)

Русский (Russian)
чепуха

Español (Spanish)
n. - tonterías

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - struntprat

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
无意义, 废话, 胡说

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 無意義, 廢話, 胡說

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 무의미, 허튼[당찮은] 소리

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ばかげた話, たわごと, ばかな

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) هراء, كلام فارغ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שטויות‬

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