codswallop

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish.Examples: "Tony: I was not. Sidney: Don’t give me that old codswallop. You were counting your money."; "Just branding a programme as ‘rubbish’, ‘tripe’, or—there are a lot of these—‘codswallop’, gives little indication of what moved the viewer to write."; "An interviewer from a Warsaw radio station stopped a citizen in the street. Was the recent demonstration necessary? “History will tell.” But what did he think? “I am not a historian.” Likewise Lumsden′s and Wilson′s book. If it is not a load of codswallop, it will turn out to be very important. If it is not a load of codswallop. Faites vos jeux!"Synonyms: hogswallop, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, ballsCommonwealthIrelandUKslanguncountable