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Definition of Poppycock

1. Noun. Senseless talk. "Don't give me that stuff"

Definition of Poppycock

1. Noun. (colloquial) foolish talk; nonsense. ¹

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Definition of Poppycock

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Poppycock

Literary usage of Poppycock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bashful Ballads by Burges Johnson (1911)
""My mind, I find," said the poppycock, "Is a crucial key to the cosmic Lock; 'Tis largely due, I would fain aver, To the astral Is of the As It Were,— With ..."

2. The Twentieth Century American: Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of by Harry Perry Robinson (1908)
"... Pheasants on Clapham Common—Shooting Foxes and the " Sport" of Wild-fowling—The Amateur in American Sport—At Henley—And at Large—Teutonic poppycock. ..."

3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"poppycock. Bombast. Slang. 1865 You won't bo able to find such another pack of poppycock ... 1892 Their wails were all what the boys call "poppycock. ..."

4. America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from by George Augustus Sala (1886)
"What " poppycock " may be I do not know; but the word is certainly a forcibly expressive one. On the other hand, it was rumoured that certain of the most ..."

5. America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from by George Augustus Sala (1883)
"What " poppycock " may be I do not know; but the word is certainly a forcibly expressive one. On the other hand, it was rumoured that certain of the most ..."

6. America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from by George Augustus Sala (1886)
"What " poppycock " may be I do not know; but the word is certainly a forcibly expressive one. On the other hand, it was rumoured that certain of the most ..."

7. The Genial Showman by Edward Peron Hingston (1881)
"rI ""AKE your ' Babes' into the Northern mines -i- and you'll do well; but I guess you'll find it all poppycock if you try the Southern ones. ..."

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