baloney
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Baloney
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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baloney or boloney (bəˈləʊnɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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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Example sentences
The article is a bunch of unsubstantiated baloney blaming global warming for many other changes to various animals environments.
All the explanations otherwise are handwaving baloney.
When critics say there is no high fashion, that's baloney.
Most of the comments here are the typical cultural baloney.
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