alogy†, nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy†,
stultiloquence†; nugacity†.
blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism†, Hibernicism†; slipslop†;
anticlimax, bathos; sophism &c 477.
farce, galimathias†, amphigouri†, rhapsody; farrago &c (disorder)
59; betise [Fr.]; extravagance, romance; sciamachy†.
sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic†.
jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish &c (no meaning) 517;
exaggeration &c 549; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-
delusion.
vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade
[Fr.], escapade.
V. play the fool &c 499; talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess
[Fr.]; battre la campagne [Fr.]; hanemolia bazein [Gr.]; be absurd &c
adj..
Adj. absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless,
inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-
contradictory; macaronic†, punning.
foolish &c 499; sophistical &c 477; unmeaning &c 517; without
rhyme or reason; fantastic.
Int. fiddlededee!, pish!, pho!†, in the name of the Prophet—figs!
[Horace Smith].
Phr. credat Judaeus Apella [Lat.] [Horace]; tell it to the marines.