claptrap

clap·trap  (klptrp)

n.

Pretentious, insincere, or empty language: "I hate ... that air/Of claptrap, which your recent poets prize" (Byron).

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[Obsolete claptrap, a theatrical trick to win applause : clap + trap.]

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claptrap [ˈklæpˌtræp]

n Informal

1. contrived but foolish talk

2. insincere and pretentious talk politicians' claptrap

[C18 (in the sense: something contrived to elicit applause): from clap¹ + trap¹]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

claptrap - pompous or pretentious talk or writing blah, bombast, fustian, rant grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric - high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

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claptrap

noun (Informal) nonsense, rubbish, rot, crap (slang), garbage (informal), trash, bunk (informal), bullshit (taboo slang), balls (taboo slang), bull (slang), shit (taboo slang), hot air (informal), tosh (slang, chiefly Brit.), flannel (Brit. informal), pap, cobblers (Brit. taboo slang), bilge (informal), humbug, drivel, twaddle, tripe (informal), affectation, guff (slang), blarney, bombast, moonshine, insincerity, hogwash, hokum (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), piffle (informal), poppycock (informal), bosh (informal), eyewash (informal), tommyrot, horsefeathers (U.S. slang), bunkum or buncombe (chiefly U.S.) He talks a lot of pretentious claptrap.

Translations

claptrap [ˈklæptræp] N (pej) → burradas fpl, disparates mpl

claptrap [ˈklæptræp] n → baratin m >

claptrap

n (inf) → Geschwafel nt (inf)

claptrap [ˈklæpˌtræp] n (pej, fam) → chiacchiere fpl, sciocchezze fpl