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hooey
hoo·ey H0267600 (ho͞o′ē)n. Slang Nonsense: "the romantic hooey that always sold women's cosmetics" (Jerry Adler).
[Origin unknown.]hooey (ˈhuːɪ) n, interjslang nonsense; rubbish[C20: of unknown origin]hoo•ey (ˈhu i)
n., interj. nonsense. [Amer.; orig. uncertain] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | hooey - senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"poppycock, stuff and nonsense, stuffhokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaningjargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" |
hooeynounSlang. Something that does not have or make sense:balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash, twaddle.Informal: tommyrot.Slang: applesauce, baloney, bilge, bull, bunk, crap, malarkey.Translationshooey
hooeyNonsense. The origin of the word is unknown. His explanation is total hooey—it doesn't answer the question at all.hooey (ˈhui) n. nonsense. The whole newspaper is nothing but hooey today. lot of hooey, aComplete nonsense, total rubbish. The precise origin of the slangy noun hooey has been lost, but its meaning dates from the early 1900s. Elmer Rice had a version of it in his Pulitzer Prize–winning play, Street Scene (1928): “T’hell with all that hooey.” James M. Cain virtually defined it in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934): “It’s just a lot of hooey that this guy thought up so that he could fool the judge.” See also: lot, ofhooey
Synonyms for hooeynoun something that does not have or make senseSynonyms- balderdash
- blather
- bunkum
- claptrap
- drivel
- garbage
- idiocy
- nonsense
- piffle
- poppycock
- rigmarole
- rubbish
- tomfoolery
- trash
- twaddle
- tommyrot
- applesauce
- baloney
- bilge
- bull
- bunk
- crap
- malarkey
Synonyms for hooeynoun senseless talkSynonyms- poppycock
- stuff and nonsense
- stuff
Related Words- hokum
- meaninglessness
- nonsense
- nonsensicality
- bunk
- jargon
- lingo
- patois
- argot
- vernacular
- slang
- cant
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