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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