Codswollop

E J B. (United States of America)
This is a wonderful English expletive used to express contempt for another's opinion when it doesn't line up with yours. It should be said at the end of a conversation as you turm on your heel with a sneer and a toss of your head. It's good because you can avoid using a stronger, less acceptable, expletive.
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  1. mumble
    talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
  2. twiddle
    turn in a twisting or spinning motion
  3. gruel
    a thin porridge
  4. inadvertent
    happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally
  5. gargle
    rinse one's mouth and throat with a liquid
  6. ergot
    a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
Created on Tue Jun 25 12:11:41 EDT 2013

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