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Abusage vs Codswallop - What's the difference?

abusage | codswallop |

As nouns the difference between abusage and codswallop

is that abusage is (obsolete) abuse while codswallop is (uk|slang) senseless talk or writing; nonsense.

abusage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Abuse.
  • Improper or incorrect use of language.
    • A stickler for the rules of grammar, Mrs. Walker cringes when she encounters any abusage by the students in her freshman English class.

    References

    codswallop

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cod's wallop

    Noun

    (-)
  • (UK, slang) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
  • * 1959 ,
    • Tony : I was not.
    Sidney : Don’t give me that old codswallop . You were counting your money.
  • * 1963 October 17, (Radio Times) , 52/2,
    • Just branding a programme as ‘rubbish’, ‘tripe’, or—there are a lot of these—‘codswallop ’, gives little indication of what moved the viewer to write.
  • * 1981 October 1, John Turner, Review: Autumn Books: Prometheus bounded?'', '' , page 41,
    • An interviewer from a Warsaw radio station stopped a citizen in the street. Was the recent demonstration necessary? “History will tell.” But what did he think? “I am not a historian.” Likewise Lumsden?s and Wilson?s book. If it is not a load of codswallop', it will turn out to be very important. If it is not a load of '''codswallop . ''Faites vos jeux!
  • * 1993', J. Neville Turner, ''The One-Day Game – Cricket or '''Codswallop ?'', in 2001, David John Headon, ''The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection .
  • * 2010 , Grahame Howard, The Wishing Book 3 – Extermination , page 66,
    • “I?ve told you all I know,” Rosa Armaz told Boarski and Yermin, “I don?t know what my husband has been doing. He?d mentioned going to Mars with the children but I thought it was a load of codswallop .”

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * hogswallop

    References

    * “ codswallop]”, Michael Quinion, [http://www.worldwidewords.org/ World Wide Words *