| 释义 |
hooey slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈhuːɪ|
[Orig. unknown.]
Humbug, nonsense.
1924P. Marks Plastic Age 100 My prof's full of hooey. He doesn't know a C theme from an A one. Ibid. 160 ‘Bunk!’ he exclaimed. ‘Hooey!’ 1931E. Linklater Juan in Amer. iii. v. 247 We'll be on Broadway if you don't talk hooey like that ‘worth while’ crack. 1932Wodehouse Hot Water xiii. 223 Well, of all the hooey! 1934Discovery Jan. 4/2 The United States of America, whose capacity for new words passes all belief, is responsible for hooey. 1935Punch 10 Apr. 400/1 You have been misled, Hubert. I see it all. Somebody has been telling you the old, old story... Hooey, Hubert. Boloney. 1935L. MacNeice Poems 21 Ireland is hooey, Ireland is A gallery of fake tapestries. 1948V. Palmer Golconda xxv. 210 All this political hooey..doesn't affect me. 1952Partridge From Sanskrit to Brazil 94 These charges of anachronism are, to put it courteously, sheer ‘hooey’. 1966Auden About House 21 Lip-smacking Imps of mawk and hooey Write with us what they will. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 81 The horse between a girl's legs is supposed to be a gigantic penis. What hooey! |