poppycock
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- poppycockish adjective
Etymology
Origin of poppycock
1840–50, perhaps < Dutch pappekak, equivalent to pappe- pap 1 + kak excrement
Example Sentences
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Korsh said the British royal family did not want her character, Rachel, to say the word “poppycock.”
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Salon
And so it is understandable that Angel fans, in the immortal words of Mike Scioscia, would consider this column “poppycock.”
From Los Angeles Times
But its various figments and narratives had merged, as such poppycock tends to do, with an older and homegrown genre of German extremism.
From Seattle Times
I don my tricorn hat and declare this "poppycock."
From Salon
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