rubbish, nonsense; bunkum, bunk
çekim: tamlayan Blödsinnes
eş: Quatsch, Quatsch mit Soße, Unsinn
köken: Backformed from blödsinnig (“stupid”) (18th century).
🔊 Was für ein Blödsinn ist das?
absurdity; meaninglessness · a thing that is absurd
çekim: çoğul absurdités
eş: absurde, incohérence, non-sens
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin absurditās. By surface analysis, absurde + -ité.
🔊 l'absurdité de la vie
🔊 des absurdités
nonsense, guff, stupid/silly/trivial thing
çekim: çoğul chorradas
eş: necedad, tontería
köken: From obsolete chorrar. See chorro, chorrear, chorreo.
🔊 Sabes que ya no estoy de guardia, que no hay luz en mi balcón Tú volaste esta embajada, no me cuentes más chorradas
large bundle, bale, reap · falsehood, lie, malarkey · testicle, bollock
çekim: çoğul balle
eş: involto, fagotto, fardello, sacco, pacco, collo
köken: Uncertain. * From Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish *ballu. * From Lombardic *palla, *balla. Both etymologies ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”). Doublet of palla. Cognate with Sicilian baḍḍa, whence the dialectal doublet badda.
aile: imballare, sballare
talk, chatter, jabber, gossip
çekim: çoğul болтовни́ · tamlayan болтовни́
eş: пустословие
köken: болта́ть (boltátʹ) + -овня́ (-ovnjá)
bullshit · fart, flatus
çekim: çoğul goplar · tamlayan gopun
köken: Likely onomatopoeic. Possibly influenced by dialectal lop, itself a reduced form of lopa (“clump”). See dialectal lopçi and lopbaz. Perhaps from Persian گپ.
aile: gopçu, gopa basmaq
nonsense
köken: From Middle Dutch onsin (“absurd”), a calque of French non-sens (“nonsense”), equivalent to on- (“un-, not”) + zin (“sense”). Compare English nonsense, German Unsinn (“nonsense”).
nonsense · foolishness · junk food
çekim: çoğul besteiras
eş: asneira, tolice, manota, bobagem, brebote, porcaria
köken: From besta (“stupid, idiot”) + -eira.
masturbation, wanking · stupidity, idiocy, nonsense, bullshit
çekim: çoğul μαλακίες · tamlayan μαλακίας
eş: βλακεία, χαζομάρα, ηλιθιότητα, κουταμάρα
köken: From Ancient Greek μαλακία (malakía, “self-indulgence, weakness”), from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft, effeminate”).
aile: δια πάσαν νόσον και μαλακίαν, τραβάω μαλακία
🔊 Η μαλακία σε κάνει τυφλό.
🔊 Όλο κάθεται και λέει μαλακίες.
babbling, babble (incessant, meaningless talk)
çekim: tamlayan babbels
nonsense, bilge, drivel, hogwash, poppycock, rubbish (baseless, foolish talk)
çekim: çoğul нісені́тниці · tamlayan нісені́тниці
köken: From the expression ні се ні те (ni se ni te, “something vague, indistinct”, literally “neither this nor that”) + -ниця (-nycja).
drivel
çekim: çoğul höpinät · tamlayan höpinän
köken: höpistä + -nä
to blather · to fib
çekim: geçmiş kecala · ortaç kecala · şimdiki kecá
eş: rozlévat, cintat, mlít, žvanit, blábolit, vykecávat
köken: Possibly related to kydat.
🔊 Kecáš.
nonsense
çekim: çoğul nonsensuri · tamlayan nonsensului
köken: Borrowed from French non-sens.
double Dutch, gibberish, jargon, nonsense (nonsensical talk, incomprehensible language)
çekim: çoğul halandzsák
köken: Coined by Frigyes Karinthy; first published in 1912.
aile: halandzsázik
nonsense
çekim: tamlayan våss
köken: A back-formation of våse.
perkataan yang bukan-bukan; celoteh; omongan:
an absurdity, a silly thing to say, a piece of nonsense
çekim: çoğul estirabots
köken: By metathesis from earlier (now dialectal) estaribot, from Spanish estribote, a satirical verse form.
🔊 Aquells estirabots no es poden acceptar.
raving(s), rambling(s) · delirium
köken: Unclear. DIL suggests a compound equivalent to rá (“speaking”) + buile (“madness, frenzy”), but the preponderance of mh spellings casts doubt on this hypothesis. A connection with English rave is possible but leaves the -aille unexplained.
aile: rámhailleacht, rámhaille phóite
ht 🔊 istwa san sans , sornèt