What is the difference between balderdash and edible?
balderdash | edible |
senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
(archaic) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
* Taylor (Drink and Welcome )
(archaic) To mix or adulterate.
* Smollett
That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.
That can be eaten without disgust.
* 1957 , Jane Van Zandt Brower, Experimental Stdies of Mimicry in Some North American Butterflies'', in 1996, Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer (editors), ''Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries ,
* 2006 , Ernest Small, Culinary Herbs ,
* 2009 , Ephraim Philip Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen, Figs ,
Anything edible.
(marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc.
As nouns the difference between balderdash and edible
is that balderdash is senseless talk or writing; nonsense while edible is anything edible.As a verb balderdash
is to mix or adulterate.As a adjective edible is
that can be eaten without harm; non-toxic to humans; suitable for consumption.balderdash
English
Noun
(-)- Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash .
Synonyms
* bunk, drivel, piffle, poppycock, rubbish, twaddle * seeVerb
- The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash , and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime.
References
edible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- edible fruit
- Although stale, the bread was edible .
page 81,
- However, rather than try to place the Viceroy in a rigid, all-or-none category which implies more than the data show, the Viceroy is here considered more edible' than its model, the Monarch, but initially less ' edible (except to C-2) than the non-mimetic butterflies used in these experiments.
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- Recently germinated seeds are often even more nutritious from the point of view of humans because the stored chemicals are often transformed into more edible and palatable substances.
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- This gets to the heart of the matter because, in the parthenogenic state, the fruits are more edible (though there are also apparently advantages to pollinated figs, which may be bigger and stronger) and the trees more productive from the human's point of view.
