单词 | poppycock |
释义 | pop·py·cock /ˈpɒpikɒk $ ˈpɑːpikɑːk/ noun [uncountable] old-fashioned UNTRUEnonsense 废话,胡扯Examples from the Corpuspoppycock• Compassionate capitalists know that all this talk of love is humbug and poppycock when people are hungry, homeless, and unhappy.• Much of what he said was pure poppycock.• This seems to me to be mostly self-regarding poppycock.Origin poppycock (1800-1900) Dutch dialect pappekak “soft excrement”pop·py·cock nounChineseSyllable nonsense Corpus |
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