baloney
/bəˈləʊni
/noun informal
1 [mass noun] Foolish or deceptive talk; nonsense: I don’t buy it—it’s all a load of baloney...
- No nonsense, no baloney, not a lot of fanfare, and it's proceeding very quickly.
- This thing about them not going well is a load of baloney.
- Just when it looked like the magic of the cup was being exposed as a load of old baloney, the substitute required only three minutes to underline his faith in it.
2 North American term for bologna.Mortodella (from which we get our boloney) comes from Bologna....
- And provided you don't come foisting your legumes on me, I won't slap you with my baloney.
- Well, folks, it's nowhere near as hard as trying to unwrap a baloney and cheese sandwich or open a bag of Fritos.
Origin
1920s: sense 1 said to be a corruption of bologna.
Rhymes
- objectless
- object lesson
- object-libido
- object-love
- objectly
- object matter
- objectness
- object-object
- object of virtu
- objector
- object-oriented
- object plate
- object program
- object pronoun
- object relations
- object-relationship
- objects clause
- object-soul
- object teaching
- objectual
- object white
- object word
- object world
- objet
- objet d'art