codswallop

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] (old-fashioned, BrE, informal) nonsense: I've never heard such a load of old codswallop in my life.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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codswallopEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus codswallopEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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codswallop