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
- perception psychology
- perception time
- perceptive
- perceptively
- perceptiveness
- perceptivity
- percepto-motor
- perceptron
- perceptual
- perceptual defence
- perceptual defense
- perceptualize
- perceptually
- perceptual-motor
- perceptum
- perceptuomotor
- perceptuospatial
- Perceval
- Perceval, Spencer
- perch
- perchance
- perch-bolt
- averment
- Avernus
- Averroës