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US
/ˈbɔɫdɝ/
]
[ UK /bˈɔːldɐ/ ]
[ UK /bˈɔːldɐ/ ]
NOUN
- (Norse mythology) god of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature; son of Odin and Frigg and husband of Nanna; killed by Hoth
How To Use Balder In A Sentence
- This innocent rhetoric, from the realm of religious-ethical balderdash, appears _a good deal less innocent_ when one reflects upon the tendency that it conceals beneath sublime words: the tendency to _destroy life_. The Antichrist
- His remarks are utter balderdash from start to finish and illustrate the truly lamentable decline of science into ideological propaganda.
- This is the agreeable potation, extolled by the Londoners, as the finest water in the universe — As to the intoxicating potion, sold for wine, it is a vile, unpalatable, and pernicious sophistication, balderdashed with cyder, corn-spirit, and the juice of sloes. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- Lovage's old name of bladder seed owes less to its diuretic properties than to confusion with its Scottish cousin, spignel or baldmoney, corrupted from Balder, the Apollo of northern myths.
- And all this talk of it being a man's world is pure balderdash, poppycock and gibberish.
- Chances are that they already know it's balderdash but are enjoying the idea too much to give it up.
- The Base Balder Formation unconformity forms a highly undulating, structured seismic reflector.
- From behind the dock's bulletproof glass, well groomed and no balder, greyer or paunchier than most 62-year-olds, he has mostly gazed on empty press benches and a deserted public section. Carlos the Jackal plays to the gallery, but this time his courtroom audience has not turned up
- From behind the dock's bulletproof glass, well groomed and no balder, greyer or paunchier than most 62-year-olds, he has mostly gazed on empty press benches and a deserted public section. Carlos the Jackal plays to the gallery, but this time his courtroom audience has not turned up
- ‘What I have heard tonight is a bunch of balderdash,’ she said of council's concerns.