Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Can./US) nonsense.

1923		E. Hemingway letter 17–18 July in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 85: I suppose this sounds like all sorts of Merde from the good old manure spreader.
1955		E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 95: These guys were always tough in the beginning. Until they knew what they were up against, and realized they were shovelling manure against the tide.
1965		L. Dunne Goodbye to The Hill (1966) 178: That load of manure that I left with her at four o’clock. It was such rubbish.
1978		R. Caron Go-Boy! 248: You better not be feeding me manure, boy!