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Balderdash vs Reify - What's the difference?

balderdash | reify |

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

(-)
  • senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
  • (archaic) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
  • * Taylor (Drink and Welcome )
  • Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash .

    Synonyms

    * bunk, drivel, piffle, poppycock, rubbish, twaddle * see

    Verb

  • (archaic) To mix or adulterate.
  • * Smollett
  • The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash , and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime.

    References

    reify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing
  • Synonyms

    * conceptualize, concretize, objectify, picture, thingify

    See also

    * personify

    Anagrams

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