nonsense
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nonsense /ˈnɒns(ə)ns/
▶noun
- 1 words that make no sense.
- 2 foolish or unacceptable behaviour.
■ an absurd or unthinkable scheme, situation, etc.
- 3 [as modifier] Genetics (of a codon) not specifying an amino acid.
■ (of a mutation) giving rise to such a codon.
'nonsense' also found in these Oxford entries:
applesauce
- arrant
- balls
- baloney
- bilge
- blague
- blather
- blatherskite
- bollocks
- boojum
- bosh
- bull
- bullshit
- bunk
- bunkum
- bushwa
- claptrap
- cobbler
- cock
- cod
- codswallop
- crap
- crock
- crud
- doo-wop
- drivel
- eyewash
- fib
- fiddle-de-dee
- fiddle-faddle
- fiddlestick
- flapdoodle
- flummery
- fudge
- gammon
- gibberish
- hogwash
- hokum
- hooey
- jabberwocky
- jive
- junk
- malarkey
- mimsy
- mullock
- no-nonsense
- panjandrum
- pants
- phooey
