See balderdash in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "glúposti",
"sense": "nonsense",
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"plural"
],
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{
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{
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{
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"plural"
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"word": "bêtises"
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"code": "fr",
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"feminine",
"plural"
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"word": "calembredaines"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "nonsense",
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"plural"
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"word": "carabistouilles"
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{
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"word": "Gefasel"
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{
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"sense": "nonsense",
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"roman": "nongdam",
"sense": "nonsense",
"word": "농담"
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"code": "pdt",
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"word": "Domheit"
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"masculine",
"plural"
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"word": "ambaje"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "nonsense",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "besteira"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "nonsense",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "baboseira"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "nonsense",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "чепуха́"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "nonsense",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "бессмы́слица"
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"masculine"
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"word": "вздор"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "nonsense",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "галиматья́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "nonsense",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"form": "balderdashes",
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"singular",
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{
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"present"
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"ref": "1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, 2nd edition, London: R. Baldwin, Volume I, Letter 19, p. 309:",
"text": "That which is made by the peasants, both red and white, is generally genuine: but the wine-merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeons dung and quick-lime.",
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}
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"To mix or adulterate."
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"mix"
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[
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