Papkak

pop·py·cock (pŏp’ē-kŏk’)
_ n. Senseless talk; nonsense._

[Dutch dialectal pappekak : pap, pap (from Middle Dutch pappe, perhaps from Latin pappa, food) + kak, dung (from kakken, to defecate, from Middle Dutch kacken, from Latin cacāre; see kakka- in Indo-European roots).]

I always wondered what the word poppycock actually meant. That it would be Dutch and could be translated to as much as ‘porridge-dung’ is fascinating in all the wrong ways. I mean ‘papkak’ isn’t common at all in Dutch. We actually use the word ‘shit’ nowadays. (Which isn’t nearly as ‘weighted’ a swear-word in Dutch as it is in English.)

Posted by Vincent Leeuw - 2007-12-19 12:05.
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