| Main Entry: | malarkey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | silliness |
Synonyms: |
balderdash, drivel, foolishness, hogwash, nonsense |
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bilk, bluff, catch, cheat, chicane, con, con game, confidence game, cover-up, crock, decoy, device, dodge, fallacy, fast one, fast shuffle, feint, fib, fraud, gimmick, hoax, hogwash, hustle, illusion, imposture, jive, lie, malarkey, mare's-nest, pretext, ride*, ruse, scam, sham, shift, shuck, snare, snow job, stall, sting, story, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, trick, whitewash, wile, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | poppycock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
babble, balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, drivel, empty talk, foolery, foolishness, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, jive, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, palaver, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash* |
| Main Entry: | trash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ridiculous communication |
Synonyms: |
balderdash, bilge, drivel, foolish talk, hogwash, inanity, malarkey, nonsense, rot, rubbish, tripe, twaddle |
| Notes: | debris is the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up; garbage is food that is discarded or useless rubbish or a receptacle where rubbish is discarded; trash is worthless material that is to be disposed or a worthless or contemptible person |
Antonyms: |
information, sense |
| Main Entry: | double Dutch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incomprehensible talk or writing |
Synonyms: |
Choctaw, Greek, babble, baloney, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, hokum, hooey, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, rubbish |
| Main Entry: | double talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk intended to confuse |
Synonyms: |
babble, doublespeak, drivel, gibberish, hogwash, malarkey, nonsense, sophistry |
| Main Entry: | applesauce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baloney |
Synonyms: |
bunk, fudge, hogwash, hokum, hooey, malarkey, nonsense, poppycock, pulp, rubbish |
| Main Entry: | balderdash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, crock, drivel, flummery, fudge, fustian, jargon, malarkey, moonshine, poppycock, rigmarole, rot, trash, tripe, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | fiddle-faddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
baloney, bull, bunk, flummery, frippery, frivolity, froth, hogwash, malarkey, minutia, trifle, trifles, triviality |