"hokum" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: content, message, subject matter, substance - what a communication that is about something is about
subtypes:
- absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness - a message whose content is at variance with reason
- amphigory, nonsense verse - nonsensical writing (usually verse)
- balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle - trivial nonsense
- buzzword, cant - stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
- cobblers - nonsense
- crock - nonsense; foolish talk
- fa la, fal la - meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong
- gibber, gibberish - unintelligible talking
- incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility - nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
- jabberwocky - nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)
- flummery, mummery - meaningless ceremonies and flattery
- empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric - loud and confused and empty talk
- rigamarole, rigmarole - a set of confused and meaningless statements
- schmegegge, shmegegge - (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense
- hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense - senseless talk
- baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing
same as: bunk, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality