poppycock

[pop-ee-kok]

noun

1. nonsense; bosh.

   Synonyms: rubbish, hogwash, bunk, balderdash

poppycock

/ ˈpɒpɪˌkɒk /

noun

1. informal,  senseless chatter; nonsense

Other Word Forms

• poppycockish adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of poppycock¹

1840–50, perhaps < Dutch pappekak, equivalent to pappe- pap ¹ + kak excrement

Word History and Origins

Origin of poppycock¹

C19: from Dutch dialect pappekak, literally: soft excrement, from pap soft + kak dung; see _pap ¹

Example Sentences

“Closing down refineries, telling people to get rid of their gas stove and gas water heater is just poppycock,” he said.

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Korsh said the British royal family did not want her character, Rachel, to say the word “poppycock.”

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Meghan Markle was forbidden by the royal family to say "poppycock" in an episode of the legal drama "Suits," the show's creator Aaron Korsh shared in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

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And so it is understandable that Angel fans, in the immortal words of Mike Scioscia, would consider this column “poppycock.”

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But its various figments and narratives had merged, as such poppycock tends to do, with an older and homegrown genre of German extremism.

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Related Words

• nonsense