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poppycock

UK/ˈpɒpikɒk//ˈpɑpiˌkɑk/

poppycock noun: foolish talk; nonsense.

Noun

poppycock (usually uncountable, plural poppycocks)

  1. (colloquial, usually) foolish talk; nonsense.
    • That rumor is nothing but sheer poppycock.
    • He dismissed the conspiracy theory as poppycock.
    Synonyms:
    balderdash

poppycock meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

poppycock in Urdu

poppycock, foolish talk, nonsense
احمقانہ بات ahmaqāna bāt

poppycock in Malayalam

rubbish, nonsense, claptrap
അസംബന്ധം, അസംബന്ധഭാഷണം, അബദ്ധം, ജല്പിതം, വിഡ്ഢിത്തം, ചുളുവിൽ കെെയടി നേടാനുള്ള വാക്ക്

Synonyms of poppycock

Forms of poppycock

pluralpoppycocks

Origin of poppycock

Borrowed from Dutch pappekak, from Middle Dutch pappe (“soft food”) + kak (“dung, excrement”).

Words formed from poppycock

Questions about poppycock

What does poppycock mean?
Poppycock means foolish talk; nonsense.
What is poppycock in Urdu?
Poppycock in Urdu is احمقانہ بات (ahmaqāna bāt). See Poppycock meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is poppycock?
Poppycock is a noun.
How do you pronounce poppycock?
Poppycock is pronounced /ˈpɒpikɒk/ (UK).
What is the plural of poppycock?
The plural of poppycock is poppycocks.

Words near poppycock in the dictionary

  1. poppy seeds
  2. poppy straw
  3. poppy tears
  4. poppy-seed oil
  5. poppy-seed oils
  6. poppycock
  7. poppycockish
  8. poppycocks
  9. poppyhead
  10. poppyheads
  11. poppylike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poppycock (page history and authors); احمقانہ بات (Urdu) (page history and authors); poppycock (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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