Nearby Words
interjection
3.
Slang. nonsense.
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Baloney
is always a great word to know.
So is lulu. Does it mean:
| a closemouthed or uncommunicative person, especially one who keeps secrets well |
| any remarkable or outstanding person or thing |
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Link To baloney
Example Sentences
- When critics say there is no high fashion, that's baloney.
- Pulling off the dried-on baloney rips the paint off.
- Let's go easy on all this carbon and emissions baloney and spare a thought or two at the problem of population in the world.
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World English Dictionary
| baloney or boloney (bəˈləʊnɪ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | informal foolish talk; nonsense |
| 2. | chiefly (US) another name for bologna sausage |
| [C20: changed from Bologna (sausage)] | |
| boloney or boloney | |
| —n | |
| [C20: changed from Bologna (sausage)] | |
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Word Origin & History
baloney
slang for "nonsense," 1922, Amer.Eng. (popularized 1930s by N.Y. Gov. Alfred E. Smith), from earlier sense of "idiot" (perhaps influenced by blarney), usually regarded as being from bologna sausage, a type traditionally made from odds and ends.
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Slang Dictionary
baloney definition[bəˈloni]and bologna
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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