What's the difference between dosh and poppycock?

Dosh


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bearing in mind that the beaus will be queuing round the block to woo Gigi, perhaps she should bite the bullet and think of the dosh.
  • (2) The former Internazionale owner Massimo Moratti has been staring wistfully into the distance and wonder what might have been if he had not dished his dosh on the Special One rather than mere players.
  • (3) They may not have the hearts and minds, but they certainly have the dosh.
  • (4) Essentially a counter of how much dosh Gareth Bale has pocketed since signing for Real (if we take the time of the signing as 12.30pm).
  • (5) When one considers Nigel’s express concern that his new wife’s finances not be decimated, presumably realising that defending multiple murder charges costs a lot of dosh, Nigel’s early suicide makes more sense; pre-emptive action against a possible life sentence.
  • (6) I’m no betting man, but even if I was, I would not be quick to part with my dosh.
  • (7) 6.21pm BST 60 mins Apparently, some fan has put his house up for sale in an effort to raise some dosh to keep Ochoa at Ajaccio.
  • (8) They've got far less marketing dosh to play with too so they should be single-minded in making this the defining choice for the electorate.
  • (9) But that has not stopped people from giving their opinions freely about its character and disposition, referring to the area as Fort McMoney, the place where people go to make easy dosh, or as an outpost for displaced Newfoundlanders – and while many people from Newfoundland and the Maritimes live and work there, they make up only about 20% of the population.
  • (10) Even the promise that the NHS will earn the extra dosh by undertaking unprecedented reform will not obscure that key message to Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats.
  • (11) Has made all the right noises about carbon cuts, but could do with some dosh to make it happen.
  • (12) After a few Mills & Boon-like reluctant trysts, Gigi would tearfully admit to her father that she had fallen for her handsome prince and they would split the dosh, perhaps spending her half on an island to be used exclusively for lezzers, their quad bikes and tattoo parlours.
  • (13) Dosh 'n' Becks From Adidas to Armani, Sainsbury's to Pepsi and H&M to Police sunglasses, Beckham's brand has helped earn him a fortune of £165m, according to the latest Sunday Times rich list.
  • (14) But as one Treasury official said: "We are out of dosh.
  • (15) The still-fragile state of public finances, the fact that the NHS is going to get lots of extra money whoever is in power and the possibility of having to cut other Whitehall budgets more than already anticipated if the NHS receives even more dosh, all make the signing of that blank cheque politically very difficult.
  • (16) At Oxford, Crawford was a joint founder of the internationalist poetry magazine Verse and "cadged" poems off the likes of Edwin Morgan, Les Murray and Seamus Heaney, who enclosed £50 with his poem to help with production costs: "His generosity was not only in language, but also in actual dosh."
  • (17) Excuse me but I'm taking my dosh and getting out of here', I couldn't look myself in the face."

Poppycock


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gerry Doherty, leader of the TSSA union, and a vocal opponent of Network Rail's bonus payments, said the company's claims of record punctuality were "poppycock".
  • (2) He said: ‘I’d replace it with something terrific.’” That mix of populism and poppycock presented by the resounding Trump is causing tension even within Fox .
  • (3) If that sounds like poppycock, it's probably because it is.
  • (4) There was never any question of me being offered it, or of it being debated … It’s just, as they say, poppycock and piffle.” The tensions surrounding the reshuffle were illustrated in the early evening as a heated discussion appeared to break out in Corbyn’s office after the Labour leader outlined his thinking for the reshuffle to Benn.
  • (5) • Peter Stott, Met Office Hadley Centre, to Phil Jones and others, 8 September 2004 (email 4923) Stott is preparing for a meeting with the ecologist David Bellamy, who has publicly called global warming "poppycock", and is being cautious about not overstating the evidence in case ongoing research shows it to be untrue.
  • (6) There was never any question of me being offered it, or of it being debated … It’s just, as they say, poppycock and piffle.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “It’s poppycock and piffle”: Diane Abbott dismisses shadow foreign secretary rumour Lewis, a new MP who has served in the army in Afghanistan, said he would not be keen to take on a shadow cabinet role so quickly.