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Meanings of codswallop in English

Portuguese
folharada
Catalan
farfutalla
Spanish
bagatela

Nonsensical talk or writing.

      folharada
      Usage of codswallop in English
      1
      Instead, what we see from the government is ideologically fuelled, evidence-free codswallop.
      The Guardian
      2
      It might sound like a load of codswallop, but it's actually quite good fun.
      The Guardian
      3
      It is codswallop for the following reason: Dostoevsky was dead.
      The Irish Times
      4
      Pish-tush, spare me the codswallop and pretty words.
      Wizard and glass
      5
      Which was, of course, a load of codswallop.
      The power of one
      6
      His heart might favor tenderness with the fairer sex, but he was not inclined to sentimental codswallop.
      Poison or Protect
      7
      Collins told reporters it was "absolute codswallop" for Ardern to try keep her position quiet.
      Radio NZ
      8
      That sounds absolute codswallop to me.
      East of the sun
      9
      According to legend and codswallop, the property is haunted by the ghosts of those killed with Winchester rifles.
      The Irish Times
      10
      So Cox's codpiece turned out to be a load of codswallop as soon as he revealed his bottom line.
      The Irish Times
      11
      Never has a newspaper of the standing of The Irish Times published such a load of pious, po-faced codswallop.
      The Irish Times
      12
      They revealed that almost three in every four Americans acclaimed media that left more than four in ten of them believing codswallop.
      The Irish Times
      13
      This morning, at a 9am meeting of frontbenchers, the leadership was confronted with one MP describing Cable's idea as "complete codswallop".
      The Guardian
      14
      I must warn you, I'm very dim and I only know one poem and it's called "Ithaka" and I think it's codswallop.'"
      East of the sun
      15
      This of course, was a load of CODSWALLOP.
      The Irish Times
      16
      'What a load of old codswallop,' Níels groaned, looking up from trimming his nails.
      The draining lake
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      Portuguese
      folharada
      Codswallop through the time