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
- pseudisodomous
- pseudo
- pseudo-
- pseudo-acid
- pseudoalkaloid
- pseudoallele
- pseudoallelic
- pseudoallelism
- pseudo-angle
- pseudo-apostle
- pseudo-archaic
- pseudo-archaism
- pseudoarthrosis
- pseudoarticulation
- pseudoasymmetry
- pseudoataxic
- pseudoautosomal
- pseudo-axis
- pseudo-base
- pseudobasidium
- pseudo-bedding
- pseudoboleite
- pseudoboléite
- pseudobranch
- pseudobranchia