Thesaurus:nonsense
English
Synonyms
- applesauce (US, dated, slang)
- balls (UK, taboo)
- baloney (US, Australia)
- bollocks (UK, vulgar)
- bullcrap (vulgar)
- cobblers (UK)
- crap (vulgar)
- crock (taboo)
- crock of shit (vulgar)
- fudge (dated)
- garbage [WS] (US)
- gup (India)
- hooey (US)
- horse hockey (Canadian)
- horse piss (US, vulgar)
- horseshit (US, vulgar)
- malarkey (Ireland, US, UK)
- nertz (US)
- rhubarb (chiefly UK)
- rhubarb rhubarb (chiefly UK)
- rubbish (UK)
- shit (vulgar)
- shite (UK, vulgar)
- squit (UK, dialect)
- stuff (obsolete)
- tosh (UK)
- tush (UK)
- tripe (UK)
- whiff-whaff (obsolete, UK)
Usage
Sometimes preceded by "What a load of", "What a pile of", "What a bunch of", and "What a heap of".
Further reading
- “497. absurdity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “517. unmeaningness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “nonsense” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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