First Known Use: 1865
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poppycock
noun pop·py·cock \ˈpä-pē-ˌkäk\
: foolish words or ideas
Full Definition of POPPYCOCK
: empty talk or writing : nonsense
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Origin of POPPYCOCK
Dutch dialect pappekak, literally, soft dung, from Dutch pap pap + kak dung
Related to POPPYCOCK
- Synonyms
- applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, nonsense, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle
Rhymes with POPPYCOCK
acid rock, aftershock, alarm clock, alpenstock, antilock, Antioch, Arawak, banjo clock, billycock, building block, butcher-block, chockablock, chopping block, cinder block, clean one's clock, common stock, country rock, cuckoo clock, culture shock, floating dock, four-o'clock, future shock, glitter rock, hammerlock, hollyhock, Holy Loch, interlock, in the dock, John Hancock, kill the clock, lady's-smock, Languedoc, laughingstock, Little Rock, manioc, monadnock, on the block, out of stock, penny stock, phosphate rock, pillow block, preferred stock, Ragnarok, rolling stock, septic shock, starting block, shuttlecock, spatterdock, sticker shock, summer stock, superblock, tracking stock, treasury stock, turkey-cock, vapor lock, water clock, weathercock, writer's block
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