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
- CAT scanner
- cat's cradle
- cat scratch disease
- cat scratch fever
- cat's ear
- cat's ears
- cat's eye
- catseye
- cat's foot
- cat shark
- cat-sit
- cat-sitter
- cat-sitting
- Catskill Mountains
- cat's paw
- pocket-picking
- pocket-piece
- pocket pistol
- pocket plum
- pocket pool
- pocket protector
- pocket rocket
- pocket rot
- pocket-size
- pocket-sized