Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

alogy†, nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy†, stultiloquence†; nugacity†. blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism†, Hibernicism†; slipslop†; anticlimax, bathos; sophism &c 477. farce, galimathias†, amphigouri†, rhapsody; farrago &c (disorder) 59; betise [Fr.]; extravagance, romance; sciamachy†. sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic†. jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish &c (no meaning) 517; exaggeration &c 549; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self- delusion. vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade [Fr.], escapade. V. play the fool &c 499; talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess [Fr.]; battre la campagne [Fr.]; hanemolia bazein [Gr.]; be absurd &c adj.. Adj. absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self- contradictory; macaronic†, punning. foolish &c 499; sophistical &c 477; unmeaning &c 517; without rhyme or reason; fantastic. Int. fiddlededee!, pish!, pho!†, in the name of the Prophet—figs! [Horace Smith]. Phr. credat Judaeus Apella [Lat.] [Horace]; tell it to the marines.