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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