Re: hum
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:22:08 +1100
Helena Kim wrote:
> codswallop is a term which i personally use to replace expletives when
i'm
> comdemning someing as 'a load of bollocks'. that's about the only context
> in which i'd use it.
> generally speaking, it means stories/writing/opinions/conversations that
> are silly/ridiculous/obviously not true or of any actual meaning.
I'd certainly agree with that definition. As in `a load of codswallop'
`Complete and utter codswallop' (but strangely I've never heard anyone
described as being `full of codswallop' (:. Someone could probably do a
complex and very interesting thesis on the origins of the word from
Medieval times - but for the moment it's just a very nice sounding nonsense
word (:
`Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gire and gimble in the Wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe'
Lewis Carroll - `Jabberwocky'
Camille
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