Balductum
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 a posset countable, uncountable
"And yet, just for once, it would be an experience to drink a "balductum": "A posset composed of hot milk curdled with ale or wine."
- 2 senseless talk or writing; balderdash. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"[…] 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 […]"
- 1 nonsensical obsolete
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Latin balducta (“the curds of milk”).
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