Usually means: Nonsense, foolish words or ideas.
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  1. balderdash: Merriam-Webster
  2. balderdash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. balderdash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. balderdash: Collins English Dictionary
  5. balderdash: Vocabulary.com
  6. Balderdash, balderdash: Wordnik
  7. balderdash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. balderdash: Wiktionary
  9. balderdash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. balderdash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. balderdash: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Balderdash, balderdash: Dictionary.com
  13. balderdash: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Balderdash (disambiguation), Balderdash (game show), Balderdash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Balderdash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. balderdash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. balderdash: Rhymezone
  18. Balderdash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. balderdash: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. BALDERDASH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. Balderdash: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. balderdash: FreeDictionary.org
  23. balderdash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Balderdash: The Word Detective
  25. Balderdash: World Wide Words
  26. balderdash: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. balderdash: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  28. balderdash: Merriam-Webster

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. balderdash: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. balderdash: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (balderdash)

▸ noun:  Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Obscene language or writing.
▸ verb:  (archaic) To mix or adulterate.

Similar:
fiddle-faddle, piffle, nonsense, non-sense, unsense, nonsence, nonspeak, fadaise, pablum, linsey-woolsey, more...

Opposite:
truth, fact, reality, veracity

Types:
nonsense, rubbish, hogwash, baloney, bunk, bosh, claptrap, drivel, foolishness, more...

Phrases:
Verities & Balderdash, more...

Adjectives:
such, pure, much, mere, unscientific, sheer, utter, sentimental, absolute, nauseous, unmitigated


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Similar:
fiddle-faddle, piffle, nonsense, non-sense, unsense, nonsence, nonspeak, fadaise, pablum, linsey-woolsey, more...

Opposite:
truth, fact, reality, veracity

Types:
nonsense, rubbish, hogwash, baloney, bunk, bosh, claptrap, drivel, foolishness, more...

Phrases:
Verities & Balderdash, more...

Adjectives:
such, pure, much, mere, unscientific, sheer, utter, sentimental, absolute, nauseous, unmitigated



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