N. absurdity, absurdness, imbecility, alogy|, nonsense, utter nonsense, paradox, inconsistency, stultiloquy, stultiloquence, nugacity, blunder, muddle, bull, irishism|, hibernicism|, slipslop, anticlimax, bathos, sophism, farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody, farrago, betise, extravagance, romance, sciamachy, sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic, jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish, exaggeration, moonshine, stuff, mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion, vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade

V. play the fool, talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess, battre la campagne, ἀνεμώλια βάζειν be -absurd

Adj. absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling, self-annulling, self- contradictory, macaronic, punning, foolish, sophistical, unmeaning, without rhyme or reason, fantastic

Phr. credat judaeus apella, tell it to the marines, faculties

Int. fiddlededee, pish, pho, "in the name of the prophet—figs!"

N. meaninglessness, unmeaningness, scrabble, empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil, "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing", "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish, jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie, inanity, flap-doodle, rigmarole, rodomontade, truism, nugae canorae, twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug, poppy-cock, stuff, stuff and nonsense, bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle, absurdity, vagueness, boilerplate

V. mean nothing, be unmeaning, twaddle, quibble, scrabble

Adj. unmeaning, meaningless, senseless, nonsensical, void of sense, inexpressive, unexpressive, vacant, not significant, insignificant, trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling, unmeant, not expressed, tacit, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable

N. neology, neologism, newfangled expression, # nonce expression, back-formation, caconym, barbarism, archaism, black letter, monkish latin, corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis, pun, paranomasia, play upon words, word play, double-entendre, palindrome, paragram, anagram, clinch, abuse of language, abuse of terms, dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois, provincialism, regionalism, localism, broken english, lingua franca, anglicism, briticism, gallicism, scotticism, hibernicism, americanism, gypsy lingo, romany, pidgin, pidgin english, pigeon english, volapuk, chinook, esperanto, hindustani, kitchen kaffir, dog latin, macaronics, gibberish, confusion of tongues, babel, babu english, chi-chi, figure of speech, byword, colloquialism, informal speech, informal language, substandard language, vernacular, vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity, jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot, st. gile's greek, thieves' latin, peddler's french, flash tongue, billingsgate, wall street slang, pseudology, pseudonym, mr. so-and-so, wha d'ye call 'em, whatchacallim, what's his name, thingummy, thingumbob, je ne sais quoi, neologist, coiner of words

V. coin words, coin a term, backform, americanize, anglicize

Adj. neologic, neological, archaic, obsolete, colloquial, anglice