horsetwaddle

English

Etymology

From horse +‎ twaddle.

Noun

horsetwaddle (uncountable)

1. Nonsense, rubbish.
   • 1987, Kathy Farrell, Craig Broude, Winning the Change Game: How to Implement Information Systems with Fewer Headaches and Bigger Paybacks, Breakthroughs Enterprises, →ISBN, page 157:

     “I don’t deserve the credit. You’re the one who discovered the principles, based on what you've experienced over the years.” “But it was you who—” “Oh, horsetwaddle! Do you really believe in spirits materializing from oil-lamps? It’s far more likely, lad, that you dreamed the whole thing up.”

   • 1989 April 19, Robert Strauss, “In a word, this show’s ‘p-yooie’”, in The Asbury Park Press, page B9:

     NBC has also not provided preview tapes of “Nick & Hillary,” indicating that they don’t want critics, but you, the audience, to decide its fate. Well, sheepfeathers and horsetwaddle! I thought you, the audience, had already decided what to do with “Tattinger’s,” and that was to place it in the dumpster and get the health department to padlock the doors. P-yooie, you said. But NBC apparently doesn’t want to hear from you, the audience, who wanted to stop NBC from canceling “St. Elsewhere.”

   • 1994 December 29, Roy Fisher, “. . End Notes: Hoedown countdown”, in See Magazine, number 60, volume 4, #24, page 26:

     It’s all techno an’ awlturnative horsetwaddle, an’ there jest ain’t no way true Wrangler-wearin’ line-dancin’ folks would ever be caught dead bein’ entertained by sumthin’ like that.

   • 1996 September, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch”, in Premiere, volume 10, number 1, section 13 (What exactly David Lynch seems to want from you), page 113:

     (This kind of agenda can easily degenerate into pretentiousness and self-righteousness and condescending horsetwaddle, but the agenda itself is large-hearted and fine.)

   • 2015, Kenton Bartlett, “Change”, in The World Needs You (A Pep Talk), C.E. Press, →ISBN, page 387:

     So you punish yourself, in subtle ways, every day, because you find yourself listening to this horsetwaddle.