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ˈpoppycock slang. (orig. U.S.)
Nonsense, ‘rubbish’, ‘humbug’.
1865C. F. Browne A. Ward: his Travels i. iii. 35 You won't be able to find such another pack of poppycock gabblers as the present Congress of the United States. 1884Pall Mall G. 17 July 4/1 All what you see about me bein' drunk was poppycock. 1892Nation (N.Y.) 24 Nov. 386/1 Their wails were all what the boys call ‘poppycock’. 1914New Age 3 Sept. 410/2 The Headmaster of Eton became aware that he was talking poppycock for boys. 1924M. Kennedy Constant Nymph iii. 54 Sometimes, you know, you talk..poppycock. 1935Punch 9 Jan. 30/1, I am not going to..ruin the perfect cadences of my English prose by pointing out to you in courteous and dignified language that your objections are all poppycock and my eye. 1955Times 24 June 4/5 The peculiar capacity for pumping generals into jobs for which they were never suited continued the poppycock started by the Labour Government. 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1443/6 He was..a ‘dangerous, raving, psychotic, stupid, vicious, sickening writer of poppycock’. 1977Punch 31 Aug.–6 Sept. 335/3 If you still think that harmonisation is so much Brussels poppycock..then draw comfort from this statistic. |