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Word of the Day for Wednesday, October 23, 2013

falderal \FAL-duh-ral\, noun:

1. mere nonsense; foolish talk or ideas.
2. a trifle; gimcrack; gew-gaw.

"All this political falderal is making me crazy, Pete. I hear cuckoo statements being made by cuckoo politicians..."
-- Irwin Wolfe, Goodbye Beaver Lake, 2001

Jimmy Pendleton told himself that it was not true at all; that it was all falderal, what Sadie Dean had said.
-- Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up, 1915

The word falderal imitates the sound of nonsense lyrics in songs. It came to English at the turn of the 18th century.

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