词汇 | poppycock |
词源 | poppycock. Poppycock means nonsense, the Americanism first recorded in 1865 and deriving from the Dutch pappekak, which means “soft dung” and owes its life, in turn, to the Latin pappa, “soft food,” and cacare, “to defecate.” |
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