balductum

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  nonsensical
 * 2) * 1914 Guy Andrew Thompson, Elizabethan criticism of poetry, George Banta Publishing Company, p4
 * Richard Stanyhurst, whose own verse in his translations of Virgil is ridiculed by Thomas Nashe, scoffs at the "drafty poetry" and "rude rhyming and balductum ballads" of the time so objectionable to all the literati.

Noun

 * 1) a posset
 * 2)  senseless talk or writing; balderdash.
 * 3) * 1815 Sir Egerton Brydges, Archaica: Harvey's Four letters, and sonnets, touching Robert Greene; Pierce's supererogation; [and] New letter of notable contents. Brathwaite's Essays upon the five senses, From the private press of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, printed by T. Davison, p142
 * whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches
 * whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:nonsense
 * See also Thesaurus:nonsense