stuff and nonsense as a noun: - 1
stuff and nonsense
noun
1 stuff and nonsense
Senseless talk.
synonyms: hooey, poppycock, stuff.
Roget 4:
unsubstantiality†,
insubstantiality;
nothingness,
nihility†;
no degree,
no part,
no quantity,
no thing.
nothing,
naught,
nil,
nullity,
zero,
cipher,
no one,
nobody;
never a one,
ne'er a one [Contr.];
no such thing,
none in the world;
nothing whatever,
nothing at all,
nothing on earth;
not a particle
etc.
(smallness)
32;
all talk,
moonshine,
stuff and nonsense;
matter of no importance,
matter of no consequence.
thing of naught,
man of straw,
John Doe and Richard Roe,
faggot voter;
nominis umbra [Lat.],
nonentity;
flash in the pan,
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.].
shadow;
phantom
etc.
(fallacy of vision)
443;
dream
etc.
(imagination)
515;
ignis fatuus [Lat.]
etc.
(luminary)
423;
such stuff as dreams are made of"
[Tempest];
air,
thin air,
vapor;
bubble
etc.
353;
baseless fabric of a vision"
[Tempest];
mockery.
hollowness,
blank;
void
etc.
(absence)
187.
inanity,
fool's paradise.
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Roget 517:
meaninglessness,
unmeaningness
etc.
adj.†;
scrabble.
empty sound,
dead letter,
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.];
a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 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 [Lat.];
twaddle,
twattle,
fudge,
trash,
garbage,
humbug;
poppy-cock [U.S.];
stuff,
stuff and nonsense;
bosh,
rubbish,
moonshine,
wish-wash,
fiddle-faddle;
absurdity
etc.
497;
vagueness
etc.
(unintelligibility)
519.
[routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp. legal]
boilerplate,
clich??.
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Dutch: flauwe kul, apekool, beuzelarij, bullshit, dwaasheid, flauwekul, gebeuzel, gekakel, gekkenpraat, geklets, gekwek, gelul, geneuzel, geouwehoer, geraaskal, gewauwel, gezwam, gezwets, klets, kletskoek, kletspraat, kolder, kul, kwatsch, kwezelarij, larie, lariekoek, leuterkoek, leuterpraat, lulkoek, nonsens, onzin, quatsch, shit, wijvenpraat, zever, zottenpraat ... show more
interjection
Roget 643:
no matter!,
pish!,
tush!,
tut!,
pshaw! †,
pugh!,
pooh,
pooh-pooh!,
fudge!,
bosh!,
humbug!,
fiddlestick†,
fiddlestick end! †,
fiddlededee!,
never mind!,
n'importe! [Fr.],
what signifies it,
what boots it,
what of it,
what of that,
what matter,
what's the odds,
a fig for',
stuff!,
nonsense!,
stuff and nonsense,
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Moby thesaurus: absurdity, absurdness, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, claptrap, double-talk, drivel, drool, fantasticalness, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, humbug, jabber, jargon, ludicrousness, monstrousness, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, nonsensicality, outrageousness, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, preposterousness, rant, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, skimble-skamble, stultiloquence, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling, wildness ... show more.
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