Verkeerd vs Codswallop - What's the difference?
verkeerd | codswallop |
(UK, slang) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
* 1959 ,
* 1963 October 17, (Radio Times) , 52/2,
* 1981 October 1, John Turner, Review: Autumn Books: Prometheus bounded?'', '' ,
* 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 ,
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As an adjective verkeerd
is wrong.As a noun codswallop is
(uk|slang) senseless talk or writing; nonsense.verkeerd
Not English
Verkeerd has no English definition. It may be misspelled.codswallop
English
Alternative forms
* cod's wallopNoun
(-)- Tony : I was not.
- Sidney : Don’t give me that old codswallop . You were counting your money.
- 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.
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- 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!
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- “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 alsoDerived terms
* hogswallopReferences
codswallop]”, Michael Quinion, [http://www.worldwidewords.org/ World Wide Words*