What does codswallop mean?

nonsense; rubbish Noun. codswallop (uncountable) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish.

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Unknown, attested from 1959 episode of UK TV series Hancock's Half Hour. The writers (Galton and Simpson) state that the phrase was in general use when the show was broadcast.[1][2] A national TV appeal in the UK in 2006 failed to find earlier references,[1] though a humorous newspaper column from 1947 does use the fictional name "Sir Aubrey Codswallop".[3] Originally written (1963) codswallop, spelling cod's wallop is later. Various etymologies are proposed from some sense of cod, such as from cod (“joke, imitation”) +‎ -s- +‎ wallop (“beer (slang)”), hence cod + wallop “imitation beer” (with interconsonantal -s- to ease pronunciation of -dw-), or from cod (“scrotum, as in codpiece”) +‎ -s- +‎ wallop (“to hit”), hence cod + wallop “testicle bag” or "tbag" or "hit with testicle bag," or from cod (“fish”) (some part of the fish, as from fishing industry). A frequently given etymology, although widely rejected as a folk etymology, derives it from Hiram Codd, British soft drink maker of the 1870s, known for the eponymous Codd-neck bottle, with the suggestion that codswallop is a derisive term for soft drinks by beer drinkers, from Codd’s + wallop (“beer (slang)”) “Codd’s beer (sarcastic)”. There is no evidence that early uses had this sense, the slang wallop (“beer”) comes later than Codd’s lifetime,[1] initial spellings (1963 in print) do not reflect such a derivation (*Codd’s wallop and *coddswallop with -dd- are not found), and there is an 80-year gap between proposed coinage and attestation. This is also the name given to the wooden device placed over the neck of a codd bottle and given a push (wallop) to dislodge the marble in the neck of the bottle. The word has also been used to describe the process of opening a codd bottle.

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codswallop (uncountable)

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( UK , Ireland , Australia , New Zealand , slang ) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish. see Thesaurus: nonsense 1959 Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Hancock’s Half Hour , Tony : I was not. Sidney : Don’t give me that old codswallop . You were counting your money. Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, , 1963 October 17, Radio Times , 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. October 17, , 52/2, 1981 October 1, John Turner, Review: Autumn Books: Prometheus bounded? , New Scientist , page 41, An interviewer from a Warsaw radio station stopped a citizen in the street. Was the recent demonstration necessary? “History will tell.” But what did he think? “I am not a historian.” Likewise Lumsden′s and Wilson′s book. If it is not a load of codswallop , it will turn out to be very important. If it is not a load of codswallop . Faites vos jeux! October 1, John Turner, , , page 41, 1993 , J. Neville Turner, The One-Day Game – Cricket or Codswallop ? , in 2001, David John Headon, The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection . , J. Neville Turner, , in 2001, David John Headon, . 2010, Grahame Howard, The Wishing Book 3 – Extermination ‎[2], page 66: , Grahame Howard,, page 66: “I′ve told you all I know,” Rosa Armaz told Boarski and Yermin, “I don′t know what my husband has been doing. He′d mentioned going to Mars with the children but I thought it was a load of codswallop.”