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
- barrel bag
- barrel bomb
- barrel cactus
- barrel-chested
- barrel distortion
- barrelfish
- barrelhead
- barrelhouse
- barrel jumper
- barrel jumping
- barrel organ
- barrel race
- barrel racer
- barrel racing
- barrel roll
- barrel roof
- barrel-roofed
- barrel vault
- barrel-vaulted
- barren
- barrenly
- barrenness
- barrenwort
- barrette
- Barrett, Elizabeth