handrajos

Ladino

Noun

handrajos

1. plural of handrajo
2. (figurative) balderdash; nonsense; tosh
   • 19th century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, chapter 13, in Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, editors, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎^[1], Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 187:

     Yo, ke non kreia en estos handrajos, salia kada manyana en la kaye i via ke non se salyo ninguna pyedra de su lugar.

     I, for one, who gave no credence to this nonsense, would go outside every morning to see that not a single stone had budged from its spot.