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Meanings of
codswallop
in English
Portuguese
folharada
Catalan
farfutalla
Spanish
bagatela
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Nonsensical talk or writing.
rubbish
trash
tripe
trumpery
applesauce
folderol
wish-wash
Portuguese
folharada
Synonyms
Examples for "
rubbish
"
rubbish
trash
tripe
trumpery
applesauce
Examples for "
rubbish
"
1
Richard Burton Photo: Creative commons We think; therefore, we often talk
rubbish
.
2
Some of the
rubbish
fell in the water just astern of us.
3
He was out in the yard clearing up the brush-heaps and
rubbish
.
4
Her sandaled feet lightly disturbed the
rubbish
on the floor; dust rose.
5
Nets, barriers and
rubbish
-
fishing
vessels are likely to provide a temporary fix.
1
This
trash
-
talking
African-American style has rubbed many Australians up the wrong way.
2
Never mind if it is
trash
now; their tastes will insensibly alter.
3
He saw mounds of dirt and
trash
that were in this street.
4
Women now have the opportunity to sweep them into the
trash
heap.
5
Dodsworth is not the only one rebutting Jobs' strange
trash
-
talking
of Android.
1
Pour honey over this
tripe
;
set it before the fire to dry.
2
He bumped around the room and finally found the
tripe
water bucket.
3
Four fine no-frills restaurants dole out
tripe
soup, supposedly a hangover cure.
4
Our supper consisted of
tripe
de roche and half a partridge each.
5
Big fleshy pipes gave way to fine, glistening net, like spray-painted
tripe
.
1
Some cases of
trumpery
rosaries were found and dispatched the same way.
2
This
trumpery
business with the cigarette revolutionised my whole feelings towards Boyce.
3
Poor boy, his wife has quite forgotten him and his
trumpery
love.
4
Well, there's been a lot of trouble over a
trumpery
wooden idol.
5
What does he do with all his rhetorical
trumpery
at such times?
1
She cradled Robby with one arm and felt the jar of
applesauce
.
2
I wiped the
applesauce
from my finger and sat at the table.
3
Visit Website Directions: Combine
applesauce
,
maple syrup, and milk in a medium saucepan.
4
He took the pills she handed him; she ate the
applesauce
.
5
Mexican tomato and tomatillo salsas, unstrained cranberry sauce, and
applesauce
are familiar examples.
1
Do you mean to tell me he gets away with that
folderol
?
2
And of course she's going to pay you for all this fiddling and
folderol
.
3
For all its
folderol
,
it is only a simple offer of support for the pope.
4
You profess to be a man of science, surely you don't believe in such
folderol
?
5
Housekeeping is of more account than all this
folderol
.
1
Not a bad exchange for the Frenchman's
wish
-
wash
claret, I suspect.
2
What they want is
wish
-
wash
and slush, and God knows they get it, but not from you.
Usage of
codswallop
in English
1
Instead, what we see from the government is ideologically fuelled, evidence-free
codswallop
.
2
It might sound like a load of
codswallop
,
but it's actually quite good fun.
3
It is
codswallop
for the following reason: Dostoevsky was dead.
4
Pish-tush, spare me the
codswallop
and pretty words.
5
Which was, of course, a load of
codswallop
.
6
His heart might favor tenderness with the fairer sex, but he was not inclined to sentimental
codswallop
.
7
Collins told reporters it was "absolute
codswallop
"
for Ardern to try keep her position quiet.
8
That sounds absolute
codswallop
to me.
9
According to legend and
codswallop
,
the property is haunted by the ghosts of those killed with Winchester rifles.
10
So Cox's codpiece turned out to be a load of
codswallop
as soon as he revealed his bottom line.
11
Never has a newspaper of the standing of The Irish Times published such a load of pious, po-faced
codswallop
.
12
They revealed that almost three in every four Americans acclaimed media that left more than four in ten of them believing
codswallop
.
13
This morning, at a 9am meeting of frontbenchers, the leadership was confronted with one MP describing Cable's idea as "complete
codswallop
"
.
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
.
'
"
15
This of course, was a load of
CODSWALLOP
.
16
'What a load of old
codswallop
,
'
Níels groaned, looking up from trimming his nails.
Other examples for "codswallop"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
codswallop
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
absolute codswallop
believe codswallop
complete codswallop
free codswallop
old codswallop
More collocations
Translations for
codswallop
Portuguese
folharada
Catalan
farfutalla
virosta
palla
fullaraca
bajanada
Spanish
bagatela
jerigonza
aguachirle
borra
morralla
bobadas
basura
hojarasca
majadería
tonterías
paja
chorradas
baratija
Codswallop
through the time