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quatsch

quatsch noun: nonsense, rubbish, foolish speech or writing.

Noun

quatsch (uncountable)

  1. (often, uncommon) Nonsense, rubbish, foolish speech or writing.
    • “Quatsch,” said Onkel Heinrich.
      “My dear,” protested Tante Else, forced at last to notice these comments.
      “I say it is quatsch,” said Onkel Heinrich with a volcanic vehemence startling in one so trim.1907, Elizabeth Von Arnim, Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
    • QUATSCH: “Israel is facing a threat to its existence more serious than the five defensive wars it has fought against Arab aggressors.”―Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas, Washington Times, March 19, 1997. […] WATCH: Of five major wars between Israel and its neighbors since 1948, three clearly were...1998 January-February, Richard H. Curtiss, “Quatsch Watch: Mythinformation Observed”, in Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, page 53

Origin of quatsch

From German Quatsch. Attested in English from the beginning of the 20th century.

Questions about quatsch

What does quatsch mean?
Quatsch means nonsense, rubbish, foolish speech or writing.
What part of speech is quatsch?
Quatsch is a noun.

Words near quatsch in the dictionary

  1. quatroons
  2. quatros
  3. quatrumvirate
  4. quatrumvirates
  5. quats
  6. quatsch
  7. Quatsino
  8. Quatt
  9. Quatt Malvern
  10. quatted
  11. quattie

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