malarkey
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ki noun Informal.
speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.
Also, ma·lar·ky.
Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; origin uncertain
1925–30, Americanism; origin uncertain
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| slang nonsense; rubbish | |
| [C20: of unknown origin] | |
| malarky or malarky | |
| —n | |
| [C20: of unknown origin] | |
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Malarkey
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| 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. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
malarkey
also malarky, "lies and exaggerations," 1929, Amer.Eng., of unknown origin. Sounds like someone's name.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
malark(e)y definition[məˈlɑrki]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
With all the talk about it not being feasible is malarkey.
If necessary, you could say they weren't doing for the money, or something other flattering malarkey.
You've been watching too much cable news and falling for all that malarkey.
Physics and engineering are supposed to be above that sort of malarkey.
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