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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

folderol
    n 1: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish,
         tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce,
         codswallop]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Folderol \Fol"de*rol`\, n.
   Nonsense; foolish talk. [Also spelled falderal and
   falderol.] [Colloq.]

   Syn: humbug; balderdash; poppycock.
        [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Falderal \Fal"de*ral`\, n.
   1. Nonsense; foolish talk. [Also spelled folderol and
      falderol.] [Colloq.]

   Syn: humbug; balderdash; poppycock.
        [1913 Webster]

   2. a knickknack; a gew-gaw.
      [PJC]

Thesaurus Results for Folderol:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity, amphigory, anacrusis, babble, babblement, bagatelle, balderdash, bass passage, bauble, bean, bibble-babble, bibelot, bit, blabber, blather, bombast, bourdon, brass farthing, bravery, bridge, burden, button, cadence, cent, chiffon, chorus, claptrap, clinquant, coda, curio, development, division, double-talk, drivel, drool, exposition, farce, farthing, feather, festoons, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, fig, figure, finery, fleabite, flummery, foofaraw, fribble, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, fudge, fuss, fustian, gabble, gaiety, galimatias, gammon, gaud, gaudery, gewgaw, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gilding, gilt, gimcrack, gingerbread, gobbledygook, hair, halfpenny, harmonic close, hill of beans, hocus-pocus, humbug, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, jabber, jargon, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, measure, minikin, mockery, molehill, movement, mumbo jumbo, musical phrase, musical sentence, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, ornament, pack of nonsense, palaver, part, passage, paste, peppercorn, period, phrase, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinchbeck, pinprick, prate, prattle, rant, rap, red cent, refrain, resolution, response, rigamarole, rigmarole, ritornello, rodomontade, row of pins, rubbish, rush, section, shit, skimble-skamble, snap, sneeshing, sou, stanza, statement, strain, straw, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, superfluity, tailpiece, tinsel, toy, trappings, trash, trickery, trifle, trinket, triviality, trumpery, tuppence, tutti, tutti passage, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, two cents, twopence, vaporing, variation, verse, waffling, whim-wham

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