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malarkey slang (orig. U.S.).|məˈlɑːkɪ|
Also malaky, malarky, mullarkey.
[Origin unknown.]
Humbug, nonsense, foolishness.
1929J. P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl vii. 102 It's a wonder you notice me, I told him. That's a lot of malaky, says he. 1930Variety 29 Oct., The song is ended but the Malarkey lingers on. 1934Esquire Dec. 49/3 Daughter of Mrs. Sally Alden, father unknown! What malarkey! All hooey, even protected by the official records of a friendly republic. 1938Down Beat Mar. 5/4 We've got to say to the recording companies..‘Cut out the Mullarkey and give us some down-home stuff!’ 1945J. Steinbeck Cannery Row xiii. 55 He knew God damn well the story was so much malarky. 1958Sunday Times 20 Apr. 31/1, I will only give you the politician's malarky about imponderables and changing circumstances. 1960G. M. Wilson It rained that Friday xi. 107 Somebody's passed the word round that the island's haunted. I told them it was a lot of malarkey. 1963J. Mitford Amer. Way of Death iii. 139 The malarkey that surrounds the usual kind of funeral. 1964Punch 23 Dec. 964/3 Any mullarkey from ratting to potato picking. 1965Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 15 Aug. 5/3 Here was a man who didn't give you the old malarky. 1971[see flopsy bunny]. 1973Observer 25 Mar. 12/2 Tall stories..of rattlesnakes bringing up a nestful of baby robins,..or some such malarkey. |