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codswallop

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɒdzˌwɒl.əp/Part of speech nounSorted acdlloopswStarts with CEnds with P0 clues
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Definitions

  1. nonsensical talk or writing

Word origin

Unknown. Attested from a 1959 episode of the UK TV series Hancock's Half Hour. The writers (Galton and Simpson) state that the phrase was in general use when the show was broadcast. A national TV appeal in the UK in 2006 failed to find earlier references, though a humorous newspaper column from 1947 does use the fictional name "Sir Aubrey Codswallop". Originally written (1963) codswallop; the spelling cod's wallop is later.

Used in a sentence

  • Tony: I was not. Sidney: Don’t give me that old codswallop. You were counting your money.
  • Just branding a programme as ‘rubbish’, ‘tripe’, or—there are a lot of these—‘codswallop’, gives little indication of what moved the viewer to write.
  • 1993, J. Neville Turner, The One-Day Game – Cricket or Codswallop?, in 2001, David John Headon, The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection.

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