单词 | nonsense |
释义 | nonsensen.adj. A. n. I. Senses relating to absence of rationality or meaning. 1. a. That which is not sense; absurd or meaningless words or ideas.Esp. in recent linguistic use often spelt non-sense to avoid connotations of absurdity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > in conduct harlotryc1384 May game1571 scogginism1593 buffianism1596 delirium1599 fooling1602 scoggery1602 buffoonism1611 nonsense1612 scurrility1614 buffoonery1621 buffooninga1672 buffoon1780 pantomime1781 zanyism1823 harlequinade1828 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [noun] insolidity1578 emptiness1579 insignificancy1651 no-meaning1672 insignificance1754 inexpression1796 inexpressiveness1815 vacuousness1816 unmeaningness1825 unmeaning1839 pointlessness1845 non-significance1846 meaninglessness1853 unsuggestiveness1858 unexpressiveness1885 nonsense1942 1612 A. Stafford Meditations & Resolutions 101 Others againe, by an vnwittie application, make non-Sense; and infuse lothing into the nice stomack of the Reader. I wil apply nothing, which may not imply something. 1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia To Rdr. sig. A3 Many haue ventured (trusting to the Oedipean conceit of their ingenious Reader) to write non-sense. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iv. iv. 59 (stage direct.) in Wks. II Here they continue their game of vapours, which is non sense. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 222 For learned Nonsense has a deeper Sound, Than easy Sense, and goes for more profound. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No 35 ¶1 If they speak Nonsense, they believe they are talking Humour. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 399 I understand Architecture so Little that I am affraid of talking Nonsense in endeavouring to speak of it particularly. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 17 This doctrine..either is nonsense, and therefore neither true nor false, or it affirms a most..dangerous..position. View more context for this quotation 1859 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. (1871) II. 345 I am writing nonsense, but it is because no sense within my mind will answer the purpose. 1894 G. M. Fenn In Alpine Valley I. 28 ‘You are not [dying], John dear. It's all stuff and nonsense,’ said the little lady. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxvi. 294 You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste time that should be put on your lessons. 1942 T. S. Eliot Mus. Poetry 14 His [sc. Lear's] non-sense is not vacuity of sense: it is a parody of sense, and that is the sense of it. 1965 Eng. Stud. 46 322 A ‘steep ford’ is quite obvious non~sense. 1993 D. Dunn Dante's Drum-Kit iii. 68 A man with two cans..Sways on the street Shouting nonsense. b. Foolish or extravagant conduct; silliness, misbehaviour. Chiefly in negative contexts, as to stand (also take) no nonsense, there is no nonsense about (a person), etc.to knock the nonsense out of: see knock v. 6e. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > action, behaviour ribaldyc1330 niceheada1475 simpleness?a1475 foolery1562 motley1575 foolationa1635 simples1637 nonsense1678 follying1818 boobery1829 spoonism1839 moonraking1846 lallygagging1868 bohunkus1918 twattery?1979 1678 A. Behn Sir Patient Fancy IV. i I have no leasure to attend your nonsense. 1757 P. Bacon Oculist i. 45 You don't see your nonsense and wickedness. 1799 C. Smith What is She? iii. iii. 41 Hav'n't you done with your nonsense yet? 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xiii. 272 Come, let us have no more of this nonsense. 1821 Sporting Mag. 8 233 Smith would stand no nonsense. 1836 G. Stephen Adventures in Search of Horse (1841) i. 4 There was ‘no nonsense about him’ [sc. a horse],..but he unluckily moved like a castle! 1872 M. MacLennan Peasant Life 97 Noo, nae nanesense, Aileen. 1915 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island xxviii. 235 Miss Carson is a very fine girl. There is no nonsense about her. 1955 D. Eden Darling Clementine (1959) 50 She was a plump healthy-looking girl with a pleasant face and thick blonde hair twisted into neat coils beneath her cap. She looked as if she would stand no nonsense. 1958 J. Barth End of Road iii. 30 Perhaps because it was a weekday, there was not a girl on the beach worth the necessary nonsense involved in a pickup. 1994 Times Mag. 8 Jan. 30/2 The guides themselves..are sunny, bright and boppy, but take no nonsense. c. Used as an exclamation to express disbelief or surprise at a statement. Cf. stuff and nonsense at stuff n.1 8b. ΚΠ a1704 T. Brown Wks. (1715) IV. 98 Absurd, and Nonsense! 1776 H. Cowley Runaway 48 Geo. On whom he doats. Bel. Pshaw! Geo. Grows melancholy. Bel. Nonsense! Geo. Fights for her. Bel. Ridiculous. 1803 G. Colman John Bull iii. ii. 48 Service, nonsense!.. I'll put you into a situation in town. 1821 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 Nov. 4/3 The men who are farmers by book are no farmers for me... Let those who follow husbandry for amusement, try experiments. Poh, nonsense! 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. xviii. 128 You didn't mean it..and therefore how could you know it? Nonsense! 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xliii. 452 Apply the Testament's gentleness, and charity, and tender mercy to a toiling, worn and weary horse?—Nonsense—these are for God's human creatures, not His dumb ones. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia iii. iv. 328 ‘Why, I'm not going to marry anybody. Did n't you know that?’ ‘Nonsense, Lena. That's what girls say, but you know better.’ 1952 P. Bowles Let it come Down ii. 18 ‘You don't know what you're letting yourself in for,’ said Wilcox, laughing unpleasantly. ‘Nonsense!’ Daisy exclaimed. 1993 J. Kay Other Lovers 30 Videos in your bathroom—nonsense. 2. Absurdity, nonsensicalness. With of. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] wantonnessc1405 absurdity1529 monstruousness1545 impertinency1573 ridiculousness1573 monstrousness1574 absurd1581 absurdness1582 incongruity1597 fancy1598 delirium1599 monstruosity1604 absurdum1606 foppishness1611 impertinence1616 nonsense1630 impertinentness1645 irrationality1647 monstrosity1651 nonsensicality1652 ridicule1668 ridicule1672 nonsensicalness1674 maggotry1706 preposterousness1727 zanyship1766 ridiculosity1773 drollness1823 stultification1832 nonsensity1834 farcicality1849 cockeyedness1858 1630 W. Bedell Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. clii. 421 I shewed the false Latin, Non-sence, injustice of it. 1660 T. Pierce Impartial Inq. Nature Sin To Rdr. (margin) Compare the non-sense with the impiety of the expression. 1689 R. Gould Poems 57 The Wiser few..the Nonsense of your Fasts detect. 1767 E. Lloyd Conversation 49 Hence with thy trump'ry Nonsense of Gazette, Memorials, Proclamations, and Couriers. 1796 C. Dibdin Love's Lesson 4 If the nonsense of love by the letter you take..The undeceiv'd senses..Those which substances seem'd, flitting shadows shall find. 1834 L. Hunt London Jrnl. 26 Nov. in Ess. & Sketches 376 The possibilities of human education, and the nonsense of ill-will. 1908 M. J. Cawein Poems II. 230 The battle killed All that sweet nonsense of his youth. 1971 D. Robinson Goshawk Squadron 182 Despite the transparent nonsense of it all, Finlayson felt his guts tighten at the word cowardice. 1995 Economist 20 May (South Africa Survey Suppl.) 5/1 The resignation with which conservative Afrikanerdom has accepted the new order exposes the nonsense of its supposed inflexibility of its people. 3. Insubstantial or worthless matter, frippery; a trivial or worthless thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial > collectively nonsense1638 1638 A. Cowley Loves Riddle iv. sig. D5 Our desires..are Loves nonsence, wrapt up in thicke clouds. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche v. i. 58 What royall Non-sense is a Diademe Abroad, for One who's not at Home supream! 1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 24 I find This busie World is Non-sense all. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Rose & Ring I know who'll give me much finer things than your beggarly little pearl nonsense. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 2 Feb. 12/1 Six dollars a week for slippers, and three more for ‘ribbons and bits of chiffon nonsense’. 1987 Z. Tomin Coast of Bohemia i. 31 I'll get the boots for you, you'd only buy yourself another flimsy nonsense. 4. As a count noun: a piece of nonsense; a ridiculous notion or idea; an arrangement of which one disapproves; a muddle, a fiasco. Now frequently (chiefly British) in to make a nonsense of: to reduce the value of to a ridiculous degree. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > failure or going wrong > instance of miscarriage1590 nonsense1646 slip-up1909 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > instance of flim-flam1546 delirium1599 bull1640 nonsense1646 fandango1841 fiddlededee1843 flapdoodle1878 1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 98 Every new nonsense will be more acceptable..then any old sense. 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion ii. 35 He understood not French very well, nor I his Fustian Language; so our discourse was a perpetuall Nonsense. 1803 W. Scott Let. 14 Sept. (1932) I. 204 I daresay I shall go on scribbling one nonsense or another to the end of the chapter. 1827 Freedom's Jrnl. (Electronic text) 22 June And who is this garrulous curiosity..this Niagara of nonsenses? 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 212 Lyne made a nonsense of the embarkation. 1957 Listener 30 May 873 Size is essential for efficiency. A small steel works..is an economic nonsense. 1962 Movie June 6/2 Ambitious nonsenses like The Entertainer and Flame in the Streets. 1985 C. Phillips Final Passage 164 It made a nonsense of their reunion, for her marriage was again to be tolerated, not shared. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [noun] > instance of non-significant1605 nonsense1650 insignificancy1651 mean-nothing1654 insignificant1816 unmeaningness1864 phlizz1889 small fry1893 1650 Truth's Confl. with Error i. 11 This is to put a nonsense upon the place, and to destroy the savor that is in it. 1711 A. Pope Let. 25 June in Corr. (1956) I. 122 How easy it is to any one to give a new sense, or a new nonsense, to what the author intended. II. Senses relating to physical sensation. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion dryheada1300 lethargyc1380 drynessc1450 dumping1542 unsensibility1551 insensibleness?1555 unsensibleness?1555 stupidity1568 stolidity1570 stupor1570 dumpishness1574 senselessness1577 innaturality1579 astoniedness1580 impassibility1603 stupefaction1603 torpor1607 deadness1611 unsufferance1611 hebetude1621 nonsense1621 drought1622 hebetation1623 obstupefaction1625 unanswerableness1626 tastelessnessa1631 insensateness1646 impassiveness1648 obtuseness1648 barrenness1655 torpulency1657 sterility1661 spiritlessness1669 unspiritedness1669 unaffectedness1678 insensibility1691 stolidness1727 apathy1742 impenetrableness1747 unfeelingness1766 impassivity1794 unfeeling1805 soullessness1811 incommobility1822 obtusity1823 unimpressibleness1830 hardhead1836 stockishness1837 insensitiveness1838 impenetrability1847 unreceptivity1849 unsusceptibility1850 woodenness1854 unimpressionability1862 irresponsiveness1864 unresponsiveness1869 impassibleness1874 irreceptivity1881 unimpressibility1889 apatheia1893 inemotivity1894 affectlessness1921 insensitivity1957 1621 in T. Bedford Sinne unto Death A i b Disquietnesse of Conscience [growes] into a numbdnesse or non-sense. B. adj. (usually attributive). 1. a. That is nonsense; nonsensical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [adjective] impertinenta1425 royeta1522 absurd1531 preposterous1533 ridiculous1533 deaf?1541 monstrous?1549 fabulous1561 fanatical1598 fantastical1600 laughable1600 fantasticc1616 nonsense1621 arsy-versy1628 absonous1642 nonsensical1645 ridicule?1669 fancical1671 grotesque1747 rich1836 saugrenu1876 laughsome1884 cockeyed1894 hilarious1925 Rube Goldberg1928 whimsy-whamsy1931 Rube Goldbergian1933 cockamamie1941 fantasticated1960 fanciful- the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective] tooma1250 beggarly1526 trumpery1576 balductum1577 skimble-skamble1598 nonsense1621 warbling1621 flim-flam1631 nonsensical1645 unsensical1692 fiddlecome1697 waffling1698 mataeological1716 flummery1749 water-gruelish1788 slip-sloppish1797 twaddling1804 twaddle1830 twaddly1841 fee-faw-fumish1846 poppycock1852 boshy1860 twaddlesome1865 moonshiny1880 cockalorum1881 tommyrotic1894 crappy1928 ballsy1942 farkakte1960 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iv. i. v. 444 A few simples well..vnderstood, are far better then such a heap of non-sense confused compounds. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iv. §47. 217 Some empty unintelligible non-sense distinction. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 191 Put case the way of washing in Jordan bee irrationall and non-sense to thy wit and reason. 1784 H. More Let. (1925) 100 Whereas Horace, liking nonsense-talk better than to be always with the Greeks and Romans, I sometimes get more than my share of him. 1823 C. Lamb Quakers' Meeting in Elia 109 Tired..of the janglings, and nonsense-noises of the world. 1858 M. Oliphant Laird of Norlaw II. 127 This is not a nonsense letter—will you read it, mother? 1970 Sci. Jrnl. Aug. 3/3 The idea that world energy production must continue to rise indefinitely is a nonsense concept. b. Esp. of language, a poem, or song: consisting or composed (usually deliberately) of nonsense.nonsense book: see Compounds 1. See also nonsense verse n., nonsense word n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ c1670 in Bodl. Rawl. Ms D. 191 f. 5v [At Eaton] they make verses at 3 in ye even & make 30 or 40 lines of Theme by next morning. They make nonsense verses at 1st. 1842 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 118 Nonsense names.—Some authors..have adopted the plan of coining words at random without any derivation or meaning whatever. 1871 E. Lear (title) Nonsense songs, stories, botany and alphabets. 1932 H. J. Laski in Holmes–Laski Lett. (1953) II. 1376 You English..are the only people in the world with a nonsense-literature which a man can read with pleasure. 1977 P. Leach Baby & Child vi. 421 All pre-school children love nonsense rhymes and nonsense words. 1986 G. M. Wolfe Crit. Terms for Sci. Fiction & Fantasy 82 Nonsense narratives are allied to fantasy, in that they are usually fantastic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adjective] idlec825 giddyc1000 volage?a1366 apec1370 foolisha1382 vain1390 idleful1483 volageous1487 glaikit1488 cock-brained1530 apish1532 empty1550 sillyc1555 frivolous?1563 tickle-headed1583 light-braineda1593 frothy1593 owlish1596 bird-witted1605 empty-headed1614 idle-headed1614 empty-pateda1628 marmosetical1630 grollish1637 feather-headed1647 nonsense1647 whirl-crowned1648 feather-brained1649 swimmering1650 soft-pated1651 weather-headeda1652 shuttlecock1660 drum-headed1664 chicken-brained1678 halokit1724 desipient1727 shatter-pated1727 scattered-brained1747 light-thoughted1777 scatter-brained1804 shandy-pated1806 hellicat1815 feather-pated1819 inane1819 weather-brained1826 bubble-headed1827 tomfoolish1838 bird-brained1892 tottle1894 fluffy1898 scatty1911 wandery1912 scattery1924 twitterpated1943 1647 J. Gauden Hinc Illæ Lachrymæ 4 One Gorton, another Non-sense Anabaptisticall Preacher, forsooth, and a most base fellow. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. xi. 161 The Mistress of the House..told him, ‘she hoped his Honour would pardon her Husband, who was a very nonsense Man, for the sake of his poor Family.’ View more context for this quotation 1757 S. Foote Author i. 17 You are a nonsense Man, and I won't agree to any such Thing. 1871 G. MacDonald At Back of North Wind xxv. 231 There's baby fast asleep! Oh, what a nonsense baby it is—to sleep so much! 3. Molecular Biology. Of a codon: not specifying an amino acid; (of a mutation) giving rise to such a codon (and so perhaps bringing about premature termination of the synthesis of a polypeptide). Frequently in nonsense codon, nonsense mutation. ΚΠ 1957 F. H. C. Crick et al. in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 43 418 We shall assume that there are certain sequences of three nucleotides with which an amino acid can be associated and certain others for which this is not possible. Using the metaphors of coding, we say that some of the 64 triplets make sense and some make nonsense.] 1961 Ann. Rev. Biochem. 30 651 An alteration in any base pair by a mutagen raises the possibility of a class of so-called nonsense mutations. 1964 G. H. Haggis et al. Introd. Molecular Biol. xii. 318 They then calculated that the sixty-four triplets could be divided..into two classes, with twenty meaningful triplets in one class and forty-four nonsense triplets in the other. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IV. 464/2 It is now known that there may be several codes for one amino acid and that there are nonsense codes that do not code anything. 1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) i. i. 12/3 If the mutation is to a stop codon, such as UGA, then the growing amino acid chain will be cut off—a nonsense mutation. Compounds C1. a. nonsense-maker n. ΚΠ 1777 D. Garrick Let. 15 May in D. Garrick & G. Spencer Lett. (1960) 97 I shall bring the Nonsense & the Nonsense-maker to kiss your Ladyship's hands a little before five. 1990 I. Young Enigma Variations (BNC) The Enigma machine itself was a nonsense-maker in reverse. nonsense-talker n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person > one who talks nonsense or waffler penduguma1529 gibble-gabbler1653 maunderer1827 nonsense-talkera1832 bunkumite1864 phlyarologist1867 twitterer1895 blitherer1902 bosher1913 gobshite1946 waffler1959 a1832 J. Bentham Deontology (1834) I. ii. 26 The moralist..would call his enemy..hypocrite, and nonsense-talker. 1993 Independent (Nexis) 1 Dec. 39 Trinidadians..had a programme on television where they would sit and talk nonsense and the best nonsense talker was highly respected. nonsense-writer n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material metaphrast1610 lasher1611 pastoralist1619 amorist1642 travel writer1711 party writer1715 Poor Richard1757 murdermonger1785 manners-painter1807 institutionalist1817 paroemiographer1823 nautical1831 nonsense-writera1835 recaster1841 serialist1845 snobographer1848 librettist1862 palindromist1872 fragmentist1874 text-man1900 scriptwriter1911 paradoxographer1917 absurdist1929 blogger1999 weblogger1999 a1835 T. Parker in J. Weiss Life & Corr. T. Parker (1864) 70 One of the greatest proofs of the darkness of the monastic ages is the folly-admiration bestowed upon these same nonsense writers. 1887 Spectator 17 Sept. 1251 The parent of modern nonsense-writers. 1997 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 11 July 22 Joseph Brookesbank and George Dalgarno..were not deliberate nonsense writers. b. ΚΠ 1778 Love-feast 12 Led by the Spirit to John's pantil'd Roof, Which many a vagrant Paul makes Nonsense-Proof. C2. nonsense book n. a book of nonsense or nonsense verses. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] > book of poems anthology1624 poetry-book1772 poem-book1807 verse-book1849 nonsense book1874 poetry reader1895 slim volume1920 slim vol1953 1874 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 372/2 We like its free range—from the Iliad to the children's Nonsense Book. 2001 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Apr. Godfrey [suggested] to John Lennon an animated version of his nonsense book, A Spaniard in the Works. nonsense poetry n. (originally) whimsical or nonsensical verse; (later) the genre of poetry that includes nonsense verse such as limericks, as well as looser poetic forms. ΚΠ 1851 Harper's Mag. Aug. 378 We strolled in the evening through the fields and woods..as I poured forth the popular love and nonsense poetry of the time. 1899 New Cent. Rev. Jan. 30 What it is that constitutes successful nonsense poetry it is impossible to say, but all can distinguish the true article when they see it. 1938 L. MacNeice Mod. Poetry x. 182 Lear's nonsense poetry is the last flare-up of romanticism. 1998 M. Delville Amer. Prose Poem iii. vi. 189 The nonsense poetry of French Dadaist Tristan Tzara. nonsense syllable n. a syllable formed by putting an arbitrary vowel between two arbitrary consonants, used in memory experiments and tests. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable > type of breve1548 brief?1560 suppletive1666 alienisparsison1856 fortisparsison1856 gravisparsison1856 closed syllable1881 nonsense syllable1885 pre-head1958 1885 Mind 10 457 The saving of time effected in re-learning 104 nonsense syllables after various intervals. 1996 Science 13 Dec. 1849 Eight-month-old infants exposed for only 2 min to unbroken strings of nonsense syllables (for example, ‘bidakupado..’) are able to detect the difference. nonsense word n. a word having no accepted meaning; (also) = nonsense syllable n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > nonsense word nonsense word1846 1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 500/2 He sang one of those charming little Tiranas, to which he improvised the usual nonsense words as he proceeded. 1919 J. B. Watson Psychol. ix. 336 Nonsense words or syllables are made by separating two consonants with a vowel as ver, gax and moc. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. vi. 130 Out of a long string of nonsense-words (or so they seemed) the voice rose up loud and clear. 1990 Internat. Rev. Appl. Linguistics 28 296 A series of experiments on nonsense words—some pronounceable, some unpronounceable for particular language speakers (e.g. sland vs. ndasl). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). nonsensev. rare in later use. 1. transitive. To make nonsense of; to describe or represent as nonsense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > utter nonsensically [verb (transitive)] > make nonsense of nonsensify1649 nonsense1681 1681 R. Baxter Church-hist. Govt. Bishops (new ed.) xii. §170. 384 They would have so tost and torn, and sensed and nonsensed the Scripture, that they would have made it quite another thing. 1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil II. xxiv. 355 M. Millivet..has grammaticized and nonsensed the word to ‘Santa Sé’. 1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 24 Oct. 441/2 At the Haymarket all this is nonsensed. 2002 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 28 Feb. Manager Moyes has nonsensed reports that he has been making a renewed effort to buy USA striker Brian McBride. 2. intransitive. To talk nonsense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > use language nonsensically [verb (intransitive)] roya1450 to talk (or speak) at rovers1542 nonsense1822 squiddle1824 twaddle1825 fudge1834 buncomize1871 to be full of prunes1887 waffle1900 jive1928 bullshit1942 to talk out of one's arse1973 1822 M. Edgeworth Let. 30 May (1971) 404 We have given most elegant repasts as I shall have the honor of describing to you soon when we are all together nonsenseing round Lucys sofa. 1890 J. R. Lowell Oriental Apologue in Writings 143 Each with unwonted zeal..Pished, pshawed, poohed, horribled, bahed, jeered, sneered, flouted, Sniffed, nonsensed, infideled, fudged. 1909 R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 67 I nonsensed a while, tryin' to get her to laugh an' cut up, but not her. 1994 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 25 July Motoring along in the fog we nonsensed for hours on women. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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