Gio⋅van⋅ni da /ˌdʒiəˈvɑni də;It.dʒɔˈvɑnni dɑ/Show Spelled Pronunciation[jee-uh-vah-nee duh;It.jaw-vahn-nee dah]Show IPA, (Jean de Boulogne; Giambologna), c1525–1608, Italian sculptor, born in France.
bo·lo·gna (bə-lō'nē, -nə, -nyə) n. A seasoned smoked sausage made of mixed meats, such as beef, pork, and veal.
[After Bologna.]
Bo·lo·gna (bə-lōn'yə) A city of north-central Italy at the foot of the Apennines north-northeast of Florence. It was originally an Etruscan town and became a Roman colony in the second century B.C. Its famed university was founded as a law school in A.D. 425. Population: 373,000. Bo·lo'gnan, Bo'lo·gnese' (bō'lə-nēz', -nēs', -lən-yēz', -yēs') adj. & n.
n. nonsense. (Also as an exclam.) : Don't give me all that baloney!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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bologna
1850, variant of bologna sausage (1596), named for the city in Italy, formerly Bononia. See baloney.