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stuff and nonsense

stuff and nonsense noun: rubbish, foolishness, poppycock.

Noun

stuff and nonsense (uncountable)

  1. rubbish, foolishness, poppycock
    • "Stuff and nonsense!" said Bartle, forgetting in his irritation to whom he was speaking—"I beg your pardon, sir; I mean it's stuff and nonsense for the innocent to care about her being hanged.[…]"1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Bitter Waters Spread”, in Adam Bede […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book fifth, page 99
    • “It’s a pun!” the King added in an angry tone, and everybody laughed. ¶ “Let the jury consider their verdict,” the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. ¶ “No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first—verdict afterwards.” ¶ “Stuff and nonsense!” said Alice loudly. “The idea of having the...1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Alice’s Evidence”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 187

stuff and nonsense meaning in Malayalam

stuff and nonsense in Malayalam

nonsense, gibberish, rubbish
അസംബന്ധം, ശുദ്ധഅസംബന്ധം, അപാർത്ഥം, അർത്ഥമില്ലാത്തത്, ചവറ്, വിലകെട്ട സാഹിത്യരചന

Examples of stuff and nonsense in a sentence

  • “Sentence first—verdict afterwards.” ¶ “Stuff and nonsense!” said Alice loudly.1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Alice’s Evidence”, in Alice’s Adventures in...
  • "This is all stuff and nonsense," said the king; "I shall have to go myself, if we are to get this confounded whistle from him.[…]"1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “Ashiepattle and the King’s Hares”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule...
  • It's called 'The Jealous Rival; or, in Death Not Divided.' I read it to Marilla and she said it was stuff and nonsense.1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “The Story Club is Formed”, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company...

Questions about stuff and nonsense

What does stuff and nonsense mean?
Stuff and nonsense means rubbish, foolishness, poppycock.
What is stuff and nonsense in Malayalam?
Stuff and nonsense in Malayalam is അസംബന്ധം, ശുദ്ധഅസംബന്ധം, അപാർത്ഥം. See Stuff and nonsense meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use stuff and nonsense in a sentence?
“Sentence first—verdict afterwards.” ¶ “Stuff and nonsense!” said Alice loudly.
What part of speech is stuff and nonsense?
Stuff and nonsense is a noun.

Words near stuff and nonsense in the dictionary

  1. stuf
  2. stufa
  3. stufae
  4. stuff
  5. stuff a sock in it
  6. stuff and nonsense
  7. stuff dreams are made of
  8. stuff gown
  9. stuff gowns
  10. stuff gownsman
  11. stuff gownsmen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stuff and nonsense (page history and authors); stuff and nonsense (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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