codswallopn.

Brit.

/ˈkɒdzˌwɒləp/, U.S.

/ˈkɑdzˌwɑləp/, Australian English

/ˈkɔdzˌwɔləp/

Forms:

α. 1900s– cod's wallop, 1900s– codswallop.

β. 1900s– codwallop.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: cod walloper n.

Etymology: Apparently an alteration of cod walloper n. (compare sense 3 at that entry), probably after trollop n. (compare also dollop n. 2b, lollop n. 2).In sense 2 probably originally a euphemistic substitution for a stronger expression. Compare note at sense 2, and compare also remarks by the authors of the earliest attested instances in this sense, made in a 2005 interview carried out for the television programme Balderdash and Piffle:2005 A. Simpson in Transcript of Interview by V. Coren with R. Galton & A. Simpson (Takeaway Media) (O.E.D. Archive) 3 As far as I was concerned, it [sc. the word ‘codswallop’] was just a funny sounding name and when we used it in Hancock,..it was instead of saying ‘what a load of old rubbish’.2005 R. Galton in Transcript of Interview by V. Coren with R. Galton & A. Simpson (Takeaway Media) (O.E.D. Archive) 4 It could be a euphemism for a, for a word that you couldn't say in, on the BBC in those days, like bollocks, what a load of old bollocks..or cobblers, bollocks, anything like that, so it could be a word that erm, is acceptable in polite company.It is unclear whether the following instance (punningly after place names like Nether Wallop , Over Wallop , Hampshire) reflects sense 1 or implies earlier currency of sense 2:1958 R. Larter (title of pencil sketch) Welcome to Codswallop.

slang (chiefly British and Australian).

1. British slang (depreciative, chiefly London). An overly talkative woman, a gossip. Also in more general use, as a mildly depreciative term for a person. Now rare.In quot. 2005 in historical use.

ΚΠ

1928 News of World 12 Feb. 11/2 What is a ‘cod's wallop’? According to a learned counsel..the term is an East-end colloquialism for ‘a woman who cannot keep her mouth shut’.

1958 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 7 July 4/4 Maurice Arthur Fish, a Bournemouth, England, butcher, has changed his name to Carrington-Fisher. Said his wife: ‘We've been called Fishy, Kipper and Codswallop.’

2005 A. Simpson in Transcript of Interview by V. Coren with R. Galton & A. Simpson (Takeaway Media) (O.E.D. Archive) 2 In the thirties,..I was about seven or eight and my uncle..used to use it as a proper noun, he used to call me codswallop.

2. Nonsense, rubbish, drivel. Often in a load of (old) codswallop.Popularized in this sense, which they may have coined, by writers Alan Simpson (1929–2017) and Ray Galton (1930–2018), who used it as a euphemism for a stronger expression (e.g. cobblers, bollocks) in the British comedy series Hancock's Half Hour and Citizen James in the late 1950s and early 1960s, chiefly in dialogue delivered by actor Sid James. See note in etymology, and cf. quot. 2005 at sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

1959 A. Simpson & R. Galton Two Murderers (B.B.C. TV camera script) in Hancock's Half Hour 5th Ser. Episode 2. 7 Sidney. You were counting your money weren't you. Tony. I was not. Sidney. Don't give me that old codswallop, you were counting your money.

1960 A. Simpson & R. Galton Hancock's Half Hour (B.B.C. TV camera script: 6th Ser. Episode 2) 21 Sid. Well..if that's reading, you can stick it. What a load of old codswallop. The Stranglers of Bolton. They should have strangled the bloke who wrote it.

1963 Radio Times 17 Oct. 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.

1970 Peace News 30 Jan. 6/1 I hope you will stop publishing cod's wallop of the type which appeared..in Roger Moody's article.

1998 J. Holms Bad Vibes xiii. 168 If Gloria was telling the truth it was certainly not the whole truth and the likelihood was that her whole story was a load of complete codswallop.

2018 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 1 June What a load of codswallop the obesity crisis is.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	codswallop
释义	codswallopn. Brit. /ˈkɒdzˌwɒləp/, U.S. /ˈkɑdzˌwɑləp/, Australian English /ˈkɔdzˌwɔləp/ Forms: α. 1900s– cod's wallop, 1900s– codswallop. β. 1900s– codwallop. Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: cod walloper n. Etymology: Apparently an alteration of cod walloper n. (compare sense 3 at that entry), probably after trollop n. (compare also dollop n. 2b, lollop n. 2).In sense 2 probably originally a euphemistic substitution for a stronger expression. Compare note at sense 2, and compare also remarks by the authors of the earliest attested instances in this sense, made in a 2005 interview carried out for the television programme Balderdash and Piffle:2005 A. Simpson in Transcript of Interview by V. Coren with R. Galton & A. Simpson (Takeaway Media) (O.E.D. Archive) 3 As far as I was concerned, it [sc. the word ‘codswallop’] was just a funny sounding name and when we used it in Hancock,..it was instead of saying ‘what a load of old rubbish’.2005 R. Galton in Transcript of Interview by V. Coren with R. Galton & A. Simpson (Takeaway Media) (O.E.D. Archive) 4 It could be a euphemism for a, for a word that you couldn't say in, on the BBC in those days, like bollocks, what a load of old bollocks..or cobblers, bollocks, anything like that, so it could be a word that erm, is acceptable in polite company.It is unclear whether the following instance (punningly after place names like Nether Wallop , Over Wallop , Hampshire) reflects sense 1 or implies earlier currency of sense 2:1958 R. Larter (title of pencil sketch) Welcome to Codswallop. slang (chiefly British and Australian). 1. British slang (depreciative, chiefly London). An overly talkative woman, a gossip. Also in more general use, as a mildly depreciative term for a person. Now rare.In quot. 2005 in historical use. ΚΠ 1928 News of World 12 Feb. 11/2 What is a ‘cod's wallop’? According to a learned counsel..the term is an East-end colloquialism for ‘a woman who cannot keep her mouth shut’. 1958 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 7 July 4/4 Maurice Arthur Fish, a Bournemouth, England, butcher, has changed his name to Carrington-Fisher. Said his wife: ‘We've been called Fishy, Kipper and Codswallop.’ 2005 A. Simpson in Transcript of Interview by V. Coren with R. Galton & A. Simpson (Takeaway Media) (O.E.D. Archive) 2 In the thirties,..I was about seven or eight and my uncle..used to use it as a proper noun, he used to call me codswallop. 2. Nonsense, rubbish, drivel. Often in a load of (old) codswallop.Popularized in this sense, which they may have coined, by writers Alan Simpson (1929–2017) and Ray Galton (1930–2018), who used it as a euphemism for a stronger expression (e.g. cobblers, bollocks) in the British comedy series Hancock's Half Hour and Citizen James in the late 1950s and early 1960s, chiefly in dialogue delivered by actor Sid James. See note in etymology, and cf. quot. 2005 at sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1959 A. Simpson & R. Galton Two Murderers (B.B.C. TV camera script) in Hancock's Half Hour 5th Ser. Episode 2. 7 Sidney. You were counting your money weren't you. Tony. I was not. Sidney. Don't give me that old codswallop, you were counting your money. 1960 A. Simpson & R. Galton Hancock's Half Hour (B.B.C. TV camera script: 6th Ser. Episode 2) 21 Sid. Well..if that's reading, you can stick it. What a load of old codswallop. The Stranglers of Bolton. They should have strangled the bloke who wrote it. 1963 Radio Times 17 Oct. 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. 1970 Peace News 30 Jan. 6/1 I hope you will stop publishing cod's wallop of the type which appeared..in Roger Moody's article. 1998 J. Holms Bad Vibes xiii. 168 If Gloria was telling the truth it was certainly not the whole truth and the likelihood was that her whole story was a load of complete codswallop. 2018 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 1 June What a load of codswallop the obesity crisis is. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1928
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