phooeyint.adj.n.

Brit.

/ˈfuːi/, U.S.

/ˈfui/

Forms: 1900s– fooey, 1900s– foowa, 1900s– fooy, 1900s– fui, 1900s– fuie, 1900s– phooee, 1900s– phooey, 1900s– phooie, 1900s t'phooee.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably an imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably imitative. Compare phoo int., pfui int., ptui int.Sometimes said to be from Yiddish.

Originally U.S.

A. int.

Expressing rejection, cursory dismissal (of a proposition, idea, etc.), disagreement, or disapproval.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > nonsense! [interjection]

strawc1412

tilly-vallya1529

flam-flirt1590

fiddlestick1600

fiddle-faddle1671

stuff1701

snuff1725

fudge1766

fiddlededeea1784

rats1816

havers1825

humbug1825

gammon1827

rubbish1839

pickles1846

rot1846

skittle1864

slush1869

flapdoodle1878

quatsch1907

phooey1908

tommyrot1931

balls1938

no shit1939

bollocks1940

phonus-bolonus1955

hockey1961

leave it out!1969

1908 Scrap Bk. 6 241/2 He turned his face to one side and spat out on the ground. ‘T'phooee’, even as did Shimei of old.

1916 Motion Picture Classic Oct. 61/1 ‘The Count!’ cried the hostess... ‘Phooie!’ said Iggie, ‘he is da faker; push him oud!’

1919 Sandusky (Ohio) Star-Jrnl. 19 Dec. ii. 11 (caption) Phooey! That's old stuff—she told me pers'n'ly that all of them ‘sweet patootie’ letters was forged.

1926 L. Hart Malican Man in Compl. Lyrics (1986) 102/3 Give Chinee [sic] man this chop suey He'll refuse it and say ‘Phooey’!

1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 185 And I'll say, ‘Phooie!’ or something of the sort.

1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge i. ii. 55 Oh phooey, Benny... This don't count as a drink.

1972 R. Lockridge Something up Sleeve (1973) x. 135 The answer to that was simple. It was ‘Phooey!’

1995 Empire Nov. 126/3 So phooey to sophistication, to Oscars and contextual, sub-textual whatevers.

2010 C. Bishop Toast Mortem i. 6 ‘You'll have to admit,’ she added, fondly, ‘that he's the smartest little boy and he picks up on everything.’ ‘Phooey’, Meg said.

†B. adj.

Mad, crazy. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

out of one's minda1387

frenetica1398

fonda1400

formada1400

unwisea1400

brainc1400

unwholec1400

alienate?a1425

brainless1434

distract of one's wits1470

madfula1475

furious1475

distract1481

fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

dementa1500

red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

dementated1650

brain-crackeda1652

insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

mad-like1679

dementative1685

non compos1699

beside one's gravity1716

hyte1720

lymphated1727

out of one's head1733

maddened1735

swivel-eyed1758

wrong1765

brainsickly1770

fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

1927 L. Hart Whoopsie in Compl. Lyrics (1986) 115/3 When ev'ry thing's gaflooey And life is simply phooey, Let Nance O'Neil and Eva Le Galliene sigh.

1929 Sun (Baltimore) 11 July 11/1 Girls are described as weenies, janes, dames and broads. A mad-man is phooey, crackers or blooey.

C. n.

Nonsense, rubbish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

1946 R. Chandler Let. 29 Jan. in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 45 So let's not have any more of that phooey about ‘as literature my stuff still stinks’.

1953 Postal Rec. June–July 67/1 What phooey! Ninety-six per cent of third-class isn't even read, and the few people who do would be better off if they had never read it.

1994 Private Eye 8 Apr. 7/2 An opinion poll found that a tiny minority—ie more than half the Welsh—thought Charles had done a really poor job. What phooey.

2009 D. Bonner 10 Best Questions living with Fibromyalgia x. 99 The ones that promise fibromyalgia cure-all in fifteen days are a lot of phooey.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	phooey
释义	phooeyint.adj.n. Brit. /ˈfuːi/, U.S. /ˈfui/ Forms: 1900s– fooey, 1900s– foowa, 1900s– fooy, 1900s– fui, 1900s– fuie, 1900s– phooee, 1900s– phooey, 1900s– phooie, 1900s t'phooee. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably an imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably imitative. Compare phoo int., pfui int., ptui int.Sometimes said to be from Yiddish. Originally U.S. A. int. Expressing rejection, cursory dismissal (of a proposition, idea, etc.), disagreement, or disapproval. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > nonsense! [interjection] strawc1412 tilly-vallya1529 flam-flirt1590 fiddlestick1600 fiddle-faddle1671 stuff1701 snuff1725 fudge1766 fiddlededeea1784 rats1816 havers1825 humbug1825 gammon1827 rubbish1839 pickles1846 rot1846 skittle1864 slush1869 flapdoodle1878 quatsch1907 phooey1908 tommyrot1931 balls1938 no shit1939 bollocks1940 phonus-bolonus1955 hockey1961 leave it out!1969 1908 Scrap Bk. 6 241/2 He turned his face to one side and spat out on the ground. ‘T'phooee’, even as did Shimei of old. 1916 Motion Picture Classic Oct. 61/1 ‘The Count!’ cried the hostess... ‘Phooie!’ said Iggie, ‘he is da faker; push him oud!’ 1919 Sandusky (Ohio) Star-Jrnl. 19 Dec. ii. 11 (caption) Phooey! That's old stuff—she told me pers'n'ly that all of them ‘sweet patootie’ letters was forged. 1926 L. Hart Malican Man in Compl. Lyrics (1986) 102/3 Give Chinee [sic] man this chop suey He'll refuse it and say ‘Phooey’! 1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 185 And I'll say, ‘Phooie!’ or something of the sort. 1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge i. ii. 55 Oh phooey, Benny... This don't count as a drink. 1972 R. Lockridge Something up Sleeve (1973) x. 135 The answer to that was simple. It was ‘Phooey!’ 1995 Empire Nov. 126/3 So phooey to sophistication, to Oscars and contextual, sub-textual whatevers. 2010 C. Bishop Toast Mortem i. 6 ‘You'll have to admit,’ she added, fondly, ‘that he's the smartest little boy and he picks up on everything.’ ‘Phooey’, Meg said. †B. adj. Mad, crazy. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1927 L. Hart Whoopsie in Compl. Lyrics (1986) 115/3 When ev'ry thing's gaflooey And life is simply phooey, Let Nance O'Neil and Eva Le Galliene sigh. 1929 Sun (Baltimore) 11 July 11/1 Girls are described as weenies, janes, dames and broads. A mad-man is phooey, crackers or blooey. C. n. Nonsense, rubbish. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1946 R. Chandler Let. 29 Jan. in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 45 So let's not have any more of that phooey about ‘as literature my stuff still stinks’. 1953 Postal Rec. June–July 67/1 What phooey! Ninety-six per cent of third-class isn't even read, and the few people who do would be better off if they had never read it. 1994 Private Eye 8 Apr. 7/2 An opinion poll found that a tiny minority—ie more than half the Welsh—thought Charles had done a really poor job. What phooey. 2009 D. Bonner 10 Best Questions living with Fibromyalgia x. 99 The ones that promise fibromyalgia cure-all in fifteen days are a lot of phooey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < int.adj.n.1908
随便看	to run into a brick wall to run into another's mouth to run into money to run into neck to run into scores or in score to run into shot to run into the ground to run into the sand to run into the sand also to run into the sand now less commonly to run into the sand sands to run it to run it down to run it fine to run it up the flagpole and see who salutes it to run its course to say good night to say good of to say good to to say goodbye to say grace to say graces to say ill by to say ill of to say in a person's ear