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BALONEY
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
(noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
baloney (countable and uncountable, plural baloneys)
A type of sausage; bologna.
Synonyms
• see bologna
Etymology 2
Noun
baloney (uncountable)
(uncountable, chiefly, US, slang) Nonsense.
Usage notes
Sometimes used in the rhyme phony baloney.
Synonyms
• See also nonsense.
Anagrams
• Boylean, Lebonya
Source: Wiktionary
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