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
- colonoscope
- colonoscopic
- colonoscopically
- colonoscopy
- colon therapy
- colony
- colony collapse disorder
- colony-stimulating factor
- colophon
- colophony
- color
- colorability
- colorable
- colorable imitation
- Coloradan
- Coloradian
- Colorado
- Coloradoan
- Colorado beetle
- colorado claro
- Colorado Desert
- coloradoite
- colorado maduro
- Colorado Plateau
- Colorado Springs