poppycock

Noun

Meaning

senseless talk

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

stuff hooey balderdash stuff and nonsense greek bologna bosh tosh gammon buncombe gas bull jabberwocky jive humbug
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Antonyms

enlightenment prudence balance depth discrimination discretion
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Hypernyms

nonsense bunk hokum meaninglessness nonsensicality

Phrases with the word

high-flown poppycock

Examples

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock. Sam Ervin

Claude Hopkins... maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock. David Ogilvy

don't give me that stuff Source: Internet

And now that I have moved away from the lockstep schedule of teaching, I realize that the idea of four seasons is simply poppycock. Source: Internet

Secondly the argument that the universe must have had a designer is poppycock because it begs the question "Who designed the designer - or did they just spring from nothing?" which leads to an infinite list of questions and a headache. Source: Internet

This particular poppycock apologetic has been a favorite among white supremacists and neo-Confederate wannabes since the end of Reconstruction, yet despite anything Goebbels may have said to the contrary, constant repetition of a lie doesn't make it true. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

poppy tears poppy-free poppy-growing poppycockish poppyhead poppylike