Balderdash
(noun)
- Nonsense; foolish talk or writing; gibberish.
- Senseless or foolish talk or writing; rubbish.
Origin:
From middle english baldardasche, from bald ("foolish") + dash, a corruption of dasche, dasche ("a jumbled mixture"), from old french dascun, descon ("a jumble"), from des- ("apart") + con ("with"), referring to the word being a mixture of words.
Examples:
- The lecture was filled with balderdash and did not make any sense.
- The politician's speeches were filled with balderdash and empty promises.
- The book was full of balderdash and did not provide any valuable information.
- The argument was nothing but balderdash and did not hold any weight.
- The newspaper article was filled with balderdash and did not provide any real information.