Synonyms of the word

tarradiddle

• n. A trivial lie, a fib.
• n. Silly talk or writing; humbug.

baloney

• n. (countable) A type of sausage; bologna.
• n. (uncountable, chiefly US, slang) Nonsense.

bilgewater

• n. (nautical) Water which collects in the bilges of a ship.
• n. (slang) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

boloney

• n. Alternative form of bologna.
• n. Alternative form of baloney.

bosh

• n. (chiefly Britain) Nonsense.
• interj. (chiefly Britain) An expression of disbelief or annoyance.
• n. The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.
• n. (Britain, chiefly Norfolk, slang, archaic) A figure.
• interj. (Britain) An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.

bunk

• n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
• n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
• n. (military) A cot.
• n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
• n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
• v. To occupy a bunk.
• v. To provide a bunk.
• n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
• adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
• v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
• v. (dated) To expel from a school.

drool

• v. to secrete saliva in anticipation of food.
• v. to secrete saliva upon seeing something nice.
• v. to talk nonsense.
• n. saliva trickling from the mouth.

fib

• n. (informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
• n. (informal, rare) A liar.
• v. (intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
• n. (medicine, informal) Short form of fibula.
• v. (archaic, thieves' cant, boxing) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat;…

hokum

• n. Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.

humbug

• n. (countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
• n. (countable, uncountable, slang) A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable).
• n. (countable, slang) A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Nonsense.
• n. (countable, Britain) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
• n. (US, countable, slang) Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding,…
• n. (US, countable, African American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
• n. (countable, US, African American Vernacular, slang, dated) A gang.
• n. (countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
• interj. (slang) Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!
• v. (slang) To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
• v. (US, African American Vernacular, slang) To fight; to act tough.
• v. (slang, obsolete) To waste time talking.

lie

• v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
• v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
• v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
• v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
• v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
• v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
• n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
• n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
• v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
• n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
• n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
• n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

meaninglessness

• n. The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
• n. Anything that is meaningless.

nonsense

• n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
• n. An untrue statement.
• n. Something foolish.
• n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
• n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
• v. To make nonsense of.
• v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
• v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
• adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
• adj. nonsensical.

nonsensicality

• n. (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonsensical.
• n. (countable) A nonsensical belief, remark, etc.

prevarication

• n. (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
• n. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
• n. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
• n. (law, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making…
• n. (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

story

• n. A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
• n. A lie, fiction.
• n. (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
• n. (obsolete) History.
• n. A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
• v. To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
• n. (obsolete) A building or edifice.
• n. (chiefly US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.
• n. (typography) Alternative form of storey.

tale

• n. (obsolete) Number.
• n. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language.
• n. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
• n. (law, obsolete) A count; declaration.
• n. (rare or archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
• n. (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
• n. (rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
• n. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story;…
• n. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
• n. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
• n. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence…
• v. (dialectal or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
• v. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
• n. Alternative form of tael.

taradiddle

• n. Alternative form of tarradiddle.

tommyrot

• n. nonsense, rot.

tosh

• n. (Britain, obsolete slang, uncountable) Copper; items made of copper.
• n. (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang, uncountable) Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains.
• n. (chiefly Britain, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now) especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh,…
• n. (Britain, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan.
• n. (cricket, slang, pejorative, uncountable) Easy bowling.
• n. (Britain, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.
• v. (Britain, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls.
• v. (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers.
• v. (Britain, archaic school slang) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath".
• adj. (Scotland, obsolete) Tight.
• adj. (Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
• adj. (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
• adv. (Scotland) Toshly: neatly, tidily.
• v. (Scotland) To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
• n. (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value.
• n. (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A crown coin; its value.
• n. (Britain, archaic slang, uncountable) Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage.

twaddle

• n. (uncountable) Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
• n. (countable) One who twaddles; a twaddler.
• v. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.