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poppycock
[ pop-ee-kok ]
poppycock
/ ˈpɒpɪˌkɒk /
noun
- informal.senseless chatter; nonsense
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- poppy·cockish adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of poppycock1
1840–50, Americanism; perhaps < Dutch pappekak, equivalent to pappe- pap 1 + kak excrement
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Word History and Origins
Origin of poppycock1
C19: from Dutch dialect pappekak, literally: soft excrement, from pap soft + kak dung; see pap 1
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Example Sentences
There's too much of the poppycock—too many of those long-haired, long-winded donkeys playing the miniature creator for my taste.
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The Waif was no poppycock yacht, built to dodge about the Solent and run for Cowes if the wind blew a capful.
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"I knew he'd talked a lot of poppycock about a man who was still living having been shot to death," Whitburn retorted.
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Billy Stark, coming in at the door, thought that sounded like poppycock, but Electra knew it was the wisdom of the chosen.
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Has he really got these ideas—the ambitious poppycock that you talked about?
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