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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nonsense \Non"sense\, noun [Pref. non- + sense: cf. F. nonsens.]
1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.
2. Trifles; things of no importance.
{Nonsense verses}, lines made by taking any words which occur, but especially certain words which it is desired to recollect, and arranging them without reference to anything but the measure, so that the rhythm of the lines may aid in recalling the remembrance of the words.
Syn: Folly; silliness; absurdity; trash; balderdash.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
fiddledeedee \fid"dle*dee*dee'\, interj. An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to {nonsense}! [Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nonsense
adjective: having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words" [syn: {nonsense(a)}, {nonsensical}]
noun
1: a message that seems to convey no meaning [syn: {bunk}, {nonsensicality}, {meaninglessness}, {hokum}]
2: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: {falderal}, {folderol}, {frills}, {gimcrackery}, {gimcracks}, {trumpery}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonsense": Greek, absurdity, absurdness, amphigory, antics, applesauce, babble, babblement, balderdash, baloney, bibble-babble, bilge, blabber, blah, blather, blatherskite, blether, bombast, bosh, buffoonery, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, bushwa, cackle, capering, claptrap, cock, crap, double Dutch, double-talk, drip, drivel, drool, eyewash, fantasticalness, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flimflam, flummery, folderol, foolishness, frivolity, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, gook, guff, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, horseplay, hot air, humbug, inanity, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jazz, jesting, jiggery-pokery, jokes, joking, ludicrousness, malarkey, mischief, monkey business, monkeyshines, monstrousness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, mumbo-jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsensicality, outrageousness, pack of nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, pranks, prate, prattle, preposterousness, puffery, punk, rant, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot, rubbish, shenanigans, shit, silliness, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, tomfoolery, tommyrot, trash, tricks, tripe, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffle, waffling, waggishness, wildness
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
NONSENSE, noun The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
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