hooey
/ˈhuːi
/noun [mass noun] informal, chiefly North American
Nonsense: the emphasis on family is pretentious hooey...
- Everything except the first three paragraphs is total hooey.
- Now, in high school I would have thought this was hooey, for a lot of reasons.
- It was his task to persuade us that the Big Bang was a lot of hooey.
Origin
1920s (originally US): of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- accomplished fact
- accomplisher
- accomplishment
- accomplishment quotient
- accord
- accordable
- accordance
- accordancy
- accordant
- accordantly
- accordatura
- according
- accordingly
- accordion
- accordioned
- accordion file
- accordion folder
- accordionist
- accordion-like
- accordion player
- accost
- accostable
- accoster
- accostment
- accouche