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Folderol

noun
(Also spelled falderal and falderol)
1.
Nonsensical talk or writing.  Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash.






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"Folderol" Quotes from Famous Books



... you shet up with your folderol,' he will say, with the most imperturbable good humor. 'At table dote I can behave with the best of 'em, but in my own room I'm goin' to be comfortable and take things easy like, and if I want to cool my tea in my sasser I shall. Miss McPherson don't think ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes

... not fit to give a lesson. Besides, they are all folderol, anyway, half of them. A dozen lessons, more or less, won't make any difference; they'll play just as well—and just as atrociously. Come, I insist upon taking ...
— Miss Billy • Eleanor H. Porter



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