A piece of showy talk; a vain, empty phrase or vulgarism. Obsolete.

Snivelling; snuffling; †canting discourse.

Unreal or affected use of language; spec. the formal use of religious or pietistic phrases; hypocritical talk; see cant, n.3 5b 6 In 17th cent…

As a kind of phraseology. Phraseology taken up and used for fashion's sake, without being a genuine expression of sentiment; canting language.

figurative after French usage: Empty protestations or representations, bosh, humbug.

colloquial. Empty or boastful talk; bombast, ‘hot air’; nonsense. Cf. wind, n.1 15a, gasbag, n. 2.

Smoothly flattering or cajoling talk. (colloquial.) Also, nonsense.

Absurd, worthless, or manifestly false talk or ideas; rubbish, nonsense. Cf. gammon and spinach at phrases 3. Now somewhat archaic.

Nonsensical talk or writing; gammon, blarney. Also, gipsy jargon or cant. Obsolete.

(without a or plural) Language designed to catch applause; cheap showy sentiment. In modern use passing into sense ‘nonsense, rubbish’.

Humbug, deception; flattery, ‘blarney’.

(originally U.S.), a platitude or cliché; used (esp. in plural) of superficially convincing but empty phrases characteristic of the language of…

(a) Army slang coarse woollen cloth or yarn; (b) Australian and New Zealand colloquial = bull, n.4 3; see also quot. 1898.

colloquial (originally Anglo-Indian). Actions, behaviour, statements, etc., intended merely for outward show, or to obscure or conceal actual…

Empty clap-trap oratory; ‘tall talk’; humbug.

figurative. colloquial (originally U.S.). Empty or boastful talk, pretentious or insubstantial statements or claims.

Humbug, ‘gammon’. In colloquial phrase no kid, no kidding, I am not kidding.

occasionally Clap-trap.

Bombastic or inept language.

Trivial, insincere, or untruthful talk or writing; nonsense. slang (originally U.S.).

colloquial. Glibly persuasive or misleading talk; nonsense, falsehood. Usually in the old oil. Cf. senses compounds 2a, phrases 1.

Meaningless, insincere, or pretentious talk or writing; nonsense, bunkum. Also used as a derisive interjection. Frequently reduplicated.

figurative. Nonsense; flattery; sentimental drivel. slang (originally U.S.).

empty talk, bombast.

(a) = banana liquid n.; (b) slang nonsense; insincere or insane talk or behaviour; cf. apple sauce n. at apple, n. compounds 2.

slang. Nonsense, ‘hot air’; flattery, unnecessary ostentation; (see also quot. 1943). Cf. flannel-mouth n. (c) at compounds 2 and flannel, v. 4.

Trivial, insincere, or untruthful talk or writing; nonsense; lies. Cf. crap, n.1 8.

Gossip, friendly chat. Also: idle talk, empty rhetoric. Cf. ole talk, n.

= old talk, n.

Nonsense, foolishness; insincere or persuasive talk, ‘flimflam’.

Trivial, meaningless, or uninteresting talk or writing; chatter. Cf. blah, n.