During an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, one of the characters used the word poppycock. This wasn't the first time I had heard this, but I still find it to be an odd word to describe nonsense.
The AHD defines poppycock as "senseless talk or nonsense".
It's etymological roots lie in the Dutch dialectical pappekak, with pap probably coming from the Latin pappa, meaning "food"; kak comes from M. Dutch verb kakken, meaning "to defecate", which is derived from the ME verb kacken and the Latin verb cacare.
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