codswallop n.
nonsense, rubbish, drivel; also attrib.
Hancock’s Half-Hour [radio script] What a load of rubbish [...] I have never heard such unadulterated codswallop in my life. | ‘The Poetry Society’||
Hancock’s Half-Hour [TV script] What a load of codswallop. | ‘The Reunion Party’||
Radio Times 17 Oct. 52/2: Just branding a programme as ‘rubbish’, ‘tripe’, or – there are a lot of these – ‘codswallop’, gives little indication of what moved the viewer to write [OED]. | ||
The Roy Murphy Show (1973) 106: What a load of childish codswallop! | ||
Helsingør Station and Other Departures 200: A load of codswallop. | ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in||
Chopper From The Inside 69: All white guys look alike! What a load of codswallop. | ||
John Peel 30: Talking a load of codswallop. | ||
All the Colours 13: [S]ome plausible codswallop. | ||
(con. 1943) Coorparoo Blues [ebook] ‘Cut the codswallop, whattya want?’. | ||
Man-Eating Typewriter 92: I detested the whole codswallop charade. |