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n. - Nonsensical talk or writing.

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  • EC, fess up – you copy your codswallop from a large book collection of Keynes-Samuelson cant, don’t you?
  • As to what Her Ladyship had to say about the proms I can sum up thus: codswallop, which is code for ‘balderdash’.
  • At his home in Edinburgh's Lauriston Place, Mr MacDonald dismissed the illegitimacy claims as "codswallop".
  • I was going to use the same description, but was not sure on the spelling; I was leaning towards "codswallop" though.
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