Meaning & use
Balderdash
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Nonsense; foolish or senseless talk or writing.
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That excuse is complete balderdash and everyone knows it.
He dismissed the conspiracy theory as pure balderdash.
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Originally a 16th-century term for a jumbled, frothy mixture of liquids, the word later came to mean jumbled, senseless talk.
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