phooey
/ˈfuːi
/informal
exclamation
(US also pfui) Used to express disdain or disbelief: so phooey to sophistication...
- And, phooey to the woman on the bus who quipped, I had a dress just like that in tenth grade!
- Say phooey to all your gloating girlfriends who spend V-day with any old bloke just because they are too insecure to make it on their own.
- Say phooey to the introduction of the euro to Europe from January 1 at your peril - particularly if you have a tourism-related business in York or North Yorkshire.
noun [mass noun]
Nonsense: they dismiss it all as movie phooey...
- That's phooey to most ordinary investors, who want to see their wealth expand in absolute terms and not simply get poorer slower than their neighbors.
- Added Browne: ‘They are just talking a lot of phooey.’
- It's all phooey, of course, another case of grown-ups lying to kids for sentimental reasons.
Origin
1920s: imitative.
Rhymes
- Red Army Fraction
- Red Arrow
- Red Arrows
- red arsenic
- redart
- red ash
- red astracan
- Red Astrachan
- red astrakhan
- redate
- red atrophy
- redawn
- redback
- red-backed
- red-backed mouse
- red-backed salamander
- red-backed sandpiper
- red-backed shrike
- red-backed spider
- red-backed vole
- redback spider
- red bag
- red-bait
- red-baiter
- red ball