Balderdash vs Reify - What's the difference?
balderdash | reify |
senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
(archaic) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
* Taylor (Drink and Welcome )
(archaic) To mix or adulterate.
* Smollett
to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing
As verbs the difference between balderdash and reify
is that balderdash is (archaic) to mix or adulterate while reify is to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.As a noun balderdash
is senseless talk or writing; nonsense.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.