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▪ I. balderdash, n.|ˈbɔːldədæʃ|
[Etymology unknown: see below.]
†1. ? Froth or frothy liquid. Obs.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden To Rdr. 11 Two blunderkins, hauing their braines stuft with nought but balder-dash. 1599― Lent. Stuffe 8 They would no more..have their heads washed with his bubbly spume or barbers balderdash.
†2. A jumbled mixture of liquors, e.g. of milk and beer, beer and wine, brandy and mineral waters. Obs.
1611Chapman May-day iii. Dram. Wks. 1873 II. 374 S'fut winesucker, what have you fild vs heere? baldre⁓dash? 1629B. Jonson New Inn i. ii, Beer or butter-milk, mingled together..It is against my free-hold..To drink such balder-dash. 1637J. Taylor (Water P.) Drink & Welc. (Worc.), Beer, by a mixture of wine hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. 1693W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 198 Balderdash; of drink; Mixta Potio.
b. attrib.1641Heywood Reader, here you'll, etc. 6 Where sope hath fayl'd without, Balderdash wines within will worke no doubt. 1680Revenge v. 68 Ballderdash Wine.
3. transf. A senseless jumble of words; nonsense, trash, spoken or written.
1674Marvell Reh. Transp. ii. 243 Did ever Divine rattle out such prophane Balderdash! 1721Amherst Terræ Fil. 257 Trap's second-brew'd balderdash runs thus: Pyrrhus tells you, etc. 1812Edin. Rev. XX. 419 The balderdash which men must talk at popular meetings. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 351, I am almost ashamed to quote such nauseous balderdash. 1854Thackeray Newcomes I. 10 To defile the ears of young boys with this wicked balderdash. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. II. vii. v. 287 No end of florid inflated tautologic ornamental balderdash.
4. dial. Filthy, obscene language or writing.[Cf. 1849 and 1854 in 3.] [From the evidence at present, the inference is that the current sense was transferred from 1 or 2, either with the notion of ‘frothy talk,’ or of ‘a senseless farrago’ or ‘jumble of words.’ Most etymologists have however assumed 3 to be the original sense, and sought its explanation in the obvious similarity of balder to dial. balder ‘to use coarse language,’ Du. balderen ‘to roar, thunder,’ Norwegian baldra, Icel. baldrast, ballrast ‘to make a clatter,’ and of -dash to the vb. dash in various senses. The Welsh baldorddus adj., f. baldordd ‘idle noisy talk, chatter,’ has also been adduced. Malone conjectured a reference to ‘the froth and foam made by barbers in dashing their balls backward and forward in hot water.’ Other conjectures may be found in Wedgwood, Skeat, and E. Müller. Cf. also balductum.]
▪ II. ˈbalderdash, v.
[f. prec. n.]
To make a jumbled mixture of (liquors); to mix with inferior ingredients, to adulterate.
1674in D'Urfey Pills (1872) III. 304 When Thames was balderdashed with Tweed. 1730Mandeville Hypochond. Dis. 279 (L.) Wine or brandy..balderdashed with two or three sorts of simple waters. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 143 Wine..a vile, unpalatable, and pernicious sophistication, balderdashed with cider, corn-spirit, and the juice of sloes.
fig.1714Milbourne Traitor's Rew. Pref., Was ever God's word so balderdash'd? 1821W. Irving in Warner Life (1882) 136 A fostered growth of poetry and romance, and balderdashed with false sentiment. |