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UK
/pˈɒpɪkˌɒk/
]
[ US /ˈpɑpiˌkɔk/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑpiˌkɔk/ ]
NOUN
-
senseless talk
don't give me that stuff
How To Use poppycock In A Sentence
- Your correspondent thinks this is poppycock.
- They have shown that even a still photograph can convey a lot of information about competence—and that it can do so in a way which suggests the assessments of all those senior managers were poppycock.
- And to suggest that Ireland, as a sovereign Republic, should not be entitled to lay down certain conditions for citizenship on the grounds that this might somehow be racist or unjustly discriminatory is pure poppycock.
- All this poppycock about not having educated workforces, all this stuff about, well, you're crying protectionism, you're China-bashing.
- There are reports of dioxins and suchlike but that's poppycock.
- Currently many people care to have discussions as if they have something to say but there is no sound when they move their lips, just a bunch of poppycock.
- Therefore, when Dr Yates argues that children should start counting from zero, we know that he is attempting to popularize poppycock.
- All of the above poppycock is a mere euphemism; for hate the black president. CNN Truth Squad: No eye care until you're blind in one eye?
- And all this talk of it being a man's world is pure balderdash, poppycock and gibberish.
- Those five judges up there are not going to sustain any such poppycock idea as this.