Thesaurus: balderdash
A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
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Definitions
- n. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
- n. Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
- v. t. To mix or adulterate, as liquors.
- n. trivial nonsense
- 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 (Drink and Welcome). 2. Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash. To mix or adulterate, as liquors. The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. Smollett.
- To mix or adulterate, as liquors.The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it withpigeon's dung and quicklime. Smollett.