Word Meanings - BALDERDASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

clatter, and E. dash; hence, perhaps, unmeaning noise, then hodgepodge, mixture; or W. baldorduss a prattling, baldordd, 1. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called

Additional info about word: BALDERDASH

clatter, and E. dash; hence, perhaps, unmeaning noise, then hodgepodge, mixture; or W. baldorduss a prattling, baldordd, 1. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Taylor . 2. Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BALDERDASH)

• Nonsense
• Absurdity
• trash
• folly
• pretense
• jest
• balderdash
• Romance
• Fable
• fiction
• novel
• marvel
• rhapsody
• rodomontade
• gasconade

Related words: (words related to BALDERDASH)

• GASCONADER
  A great boaster; a blusterer.
• NOVELRY
  Novelty; new things. Chaucer.
• NOVEL
  News; fresh tidings. Some came of curiosity to hear some novels. Latimer. 3. A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love. Dryden.
• TRASHILY
  In a trashy manner.
• TRASHY
  Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
• PRETENSELESS
  Not having or making pretenses.
• MARVELOUS
  1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• NOVELTY
  1. The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South. 2. Something novel; a new or strange thing.
• PRETENSED
  Pretended; feigned. -- Pre*tens"ed*ly, adv.
• GASCONADE
  A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift.
• FABLE
  1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant. Addison 2. The plot,
• RODOMONTADE
  To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
• FICTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
• FABLER
  A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall.
• ABSURDITY
  1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. "The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number." Locke. 2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were
• NOVELISM
  Innovation.
• BALDERDASH
  clatter, and E. dash; hence, perhaps, unmeaning noise, then hodgepodge, mixture; or W. baldorduss a prattling, baldordd, 1. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• RENOVELANCE
  Renewal. Chaucer.
• NECROMANCER
  One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
• MARVEL
  wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens
• EFFABLE
  Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable. Barrow.
• MISCHIEFABLE
  Mischievous. Lydgate.
• INEFFABLE
  Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven. Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contenBeattie.