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for folderol
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Folderol \Fol"de*rol`\, n.
Nonsense; foolish talk. [Also spelled falderal and
falderol.] [Colloq.]
Syn: humbug; balderdash; poppycock.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Falderal \Fal"de*ral`\, n.
1. Nonsense; foolish talk. [Also spelled folderol and
falderol.] [Colloq.]
Syn: humbug; balderdash; poppycock.
[1913 Webster]
2. a knickknack; a gew-gaw.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
folderol
n 1: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish,
tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce,
codswallop]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
170 Moby Thesaurus words for "folderol":
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity,
amphigory, anacrusis, babble, babblement, bagatelle, balderdash,
bass passage, bauble, bean, bibble-babble, bibelot, bit, blabber,
blather, bombast, bourdon, brass farthing, bravery, bridge, burden,
button, cadence, cent, chiffon, chorus, claptrap, clinquant, coda,
curio, development, division, double-talk, drivel, drool,
exposition, farce, farthing, feather, festoons, fiddle-faddle,
fiddledeedee, fig, figure, finery, fleabite, flummery, foofaraw,
fribble, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows,
frippery, froufrou, fudge, fuss, fustian, gabble, gaiety,
galimatias, gammon, gaud, gaudery, gewgaw, gibber, gibberish,
gibble-gabble, gilding, gilt, gimcrack, gingerbread, gobbledygook,
hair, halfpenny, harmonic close, hill of beans, hocus-pocus,
humbug, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, jabber, jargon,
jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, measure, minikin,
mockery, molehill, movement, mumbo jumbo, musical phrase,
musical sentence, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, ornament,
pack of nonsense, palaver, part, passage, paste, peppercorn,
period, phrase, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinchbeck, pinprick,
prate, prattle, rant, rap, red cent, refrain, resolution, response,
rigamarole, rigmarole, ritornello, rodomontade, row of pins,
rubbish, rush, section, shit, skimble-skamble, snap, sneeshing,
sou, stanza, statement, strain, straw, stuff and nonsense,
stultiloquence, superfluity, tailpiece, tinsel, toy, trappings,
trash, trickery, trifle, trinket, triviality, trumpery, tuppence,
tutti, tutti passage, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, two cents,
twopence, vaporing, variation, verse, waffling, whim-wham
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