poppycock
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Origin of poppycock
1840–50, perhaps < Dutch pappekak, equivalent to pappe- pap 1 + kak excrement
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Poppycock with an average flapdoodle reading of +10 million fiddle faddles.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022
Prince Poppycock The flamboyant former “America’s Got Talent” contestant’s stage show features original songs alongside the music of Queen, Puccini and David Bowie.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2017
Poppycock, writes Brian Palmer; a stance poised between fact and fiction is still fiction.
From Slate • Dec. 5, 2016
"Poppycock," was the virtual animadversion passed by U. S. Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps.
From Time Magazine Archive
To both it was, in one word, Poppycock.
From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
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