Wikisaurus:nonsense
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English [edit]
Noun [edit]
Sense: meaningless letter or words; or a false statement [edit]
Synonyms [edit]
- absurdity
- all my eye
- all my eye and Betty Martin
- balderdash
- balls (UK, taboo)
- baloney (US, Australia)
- Bandini
- batcrap
- blatherskite
- bollocks (UK, taboo)
- bosh
- BS
- bull
- bullcrap (taboo)
- bulldust
- bullshit (taboo)
- bunk
- bunkum
- bushwah
- claptrap
- cobblers (UK)
- codswallop
- crap (taboo)
- crock (taboo)
- crock of shit (taboo)
- drivel
- eyewash
- fiddle-faddle
- flim-flam
- folderol
- foolishness
- garbage [WS] (US)
- garble
- gibber
- gibberish
- gobbledygook
- hoax
- hogwash
- hokum
- hooey (US)
- horsefeathers
- horse hockey (Canada)
- horse puckey
- horseshit (US, taboo)
- humbug
- junk [WS]
- malarkey (Ireland, US, UK)
- mojibake
- nertz (US)
- nonsense
- pie in the sky
- piffle
- poppycock
- prattle
- put-on
- rot
- rubbish (UK)
- ruse
- santorum
- shit (taboo)
- shite (UK, taboo)
- skimble-skamble (noun)
- skimble-skamble stuff
- stuff and nonsense
- tosh (UK)
- trash [WS] (US)
- tripe (UK)
- twaddle
Usage [edit]
Sometimes preceded by "What a load of", "What a pile of", "What a bunch of", and "What a heap of".
Various [edit]
See also [edit]
External links [edit]
- “497. absurdity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “517. unmeaningness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “nonsense” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
