English Dictionary

balderdash

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbɔːldə.dæʃ/

名詞

不可算名詞 古語 廃用

Senseless talk or writing; nonsense. / (archaic) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. / (obsolete) Obscene language or writing.

日本語の意味

無意味な話や文章、でたらめなことばかりを言うこと / （古語）価値のない混合物、特に酒類の混合物 / （時代遅れ）下品な表現、または猥褻な言葉や文章

When the councilman dismissed the proposal as balderdash, the room erupted into a heated debate.

議員がその提案をたわごとだと一蹴すると、会場は激しい議論に包まれた。

意味（1）

Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.

Where, you cried in the name of Wonder, have you been able to gather together such an old fashioned Bundlement of Scientific Balderdash?

意味（2）

(archaic) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.

[T]hey would no more liue vnder the yoke of the Sea, or haue their heads waſht with his bubbly ſpume or Barbers balderdaſh, …

意味（3）

(obsolete) Obscene language or writing.

Trugge, therefore, (who has a foul mouth of his own, when he pleases) talked balderdash to Mrs. Sudberry, through the key-hole, which she did not answer, for, indeed, she seems a civil spoken woman, truly …