Synonyms of poppycock

poppycock

noun

ˈpä-pē-ˌkäk 

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

starting with the cherry tree, much of what was written by Washington's early biographers was pure poppycock

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• nuts
• garbage
• rubbish
• blah
• silliness
• stupidity
• drool
• hooey
• hogwash
• bunkum
• hokum
• balderdash
• twaddle
• claptrap
• piffle
• bunk
• baloney
• absurdity
• codswallop
• guff
• tosh
• muck
• malarkey
• jazz
• foolishness
• craziness
• beans
• tommyrot
• flapdoodle
• insanity
• trumpery
• absurdness
• crock
• trash
• humbuggery
• blither
• fiddlesticks
• folderol
• rot
• fudge
• blatherskite
• bilge
• madness
• drivel
• blather
• bosh
• bull
• blarney
• punk
• crapola
• horsefeathers
• humbug
• fiddle
• taradiddle
• folly
• fiddle-faddle
• hokeypokey
• applesauce
• nerts
• hoodoo
• moonshine
• senselessness
• idiocy
• flannel
• slush
• kookiness
• tomfoolery
• inanity
• foolery
• lunacy
• asininity
• imbecility
• fatuity
• rigmarole
• witlessness
• greek
• hocus-pocus
• gas
• inaneness
• monkey business
• hoity-toity
• double-talk
• shenanigan(s)
• hot air
• monkeyshine(s)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reasonableness
• rationality
• sense
• common sense
• sensibleness
• reasonability
• horse sense
• wisdom
• judgment
• levelheadedness
• discernment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of poppycock

Regardless, concerns that the series’ delay was due to quality problems have proved to be viral poppycock. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 27 June 2025

Buckingham Palace simply couldn’t abide someone in its circle saying poppycock. — Vulture, 29 Aug. 2023

Taylor had said in the weeks leading up to his exit that Utah was the place for him and that Whittingham was the mentor for him, all of which was poppycock. — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022

Skeptics pounced on the proclamation as pure poppycock—and for understandable reasons. — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 13 May 2022