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Word: Codswallop
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1920s (in old sense ‘overly talkative woman, gossip’): probably an alteration of cod walloper ‘person who deals in or handles fish’, also ‘foolish person’. The current sense was popularized and possibly coined by British writers Alan Simpson and Ray Galton in the comedy series Hancock's Half Hour in the late 1950s
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈkɒdzˌwɒləp
Dialects: British English
Definition:
nonsense
Short Definition:nonsense
Examples:- I think that's a right load of old codswallop
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