codswallop
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) : nonsense!; rubbish!.
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Born ~1959 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
I listened to the Hegseth/Cain press briefing this morning & can only say it was a load of yankee-doodle-dandy codswallop. They've caused a major crisis by their ineptitude & they're looking for the exit whilst trying…
Vore and ganja go very well together. Introducing Codswallop, @ovens.bsky.social 's ganja gryphon. And he's (of course) getting a massage from me. Unlike Zakk, he took zero convincing.
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(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) : nonsense!; rubbish!.
“I listened to the Hegseth/Cain press briefing this morning & can only say it was a load of yankee-doodle-dandy codswallop. They've caused a major crisis by their ineptitude & they're looking for the exit whilst trying to pass the buck onto the "rest of the world."”
“I listened to the Hegseth/Cain press briefing this morning & can only say it was a load of yankee-doodle-dandy codswallop. They've caused a major crisis by their ineptitude & they're looking for the exit whilst trying to pass the buck onto the "rest of the world."”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Vore and ganja go very well together. Introducing Codswallop, @ovens.bsky.social 's ganja gryphon. And he's (of course) getting a massage from me. Unlike Zakk, he took zero convincing.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish.
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