[
UK
/pˈɒpɪkˌɒk/
]
[ US /ˈpɑpiˌkɔk/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑpiˌkɔk/ ]
NOUN
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senseless talk
don't give me that stuff
How To Use poppycock In A Sentence
- And all this talk of it being a man's world is pure balderdash, poppycock and gibberish.
- So although that doctrine sounds wonderful, it is a lot of poppycock and codswallop to say that we should all be tolerant of everybody and should not have any standards.
- I've got to say that it's absolute balderdash and poppycock.
- It should have been called nonsense and poppycock, but it was tempting to believe it as prices just kept rocketing.
- Gerry Doherty, leader of the TSSA union, and a vocal opponent of Network Rail's bonus payments, said the company's claims of record punctuality were "poppycock". Network Rail talks up cost savings and punctuality
- Which, of course, is pure poppycock, but perhaps inevitable.
- This, of course, is poppycock, and Marx knew that full well.
- I guess me get too excited for my own good, but where did the word poppycock come from? Archive 2009-01-01
- He said: ‘I say poppycock to claims this county is safe.’
- To a narrow-minded military man like Darling, talk of rights was poppycock.