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
- stand on one's own (two) feet
- stand (or stay) the pace
- stand (or stick) out a mile
- stand (or stick) out like a sore thumb
- stand (or turn) something on its head
- stand out
- standout
- stand out a mile
- stand out from the crowd
- stand out like a sore thumb
- stand over
- standover man
- standover merchant
- stand pat
- standpipe
- standpoint
- St Andrews
- St Andrew's cross
- stand sentry
- stand someone in good stead
- stand someone off
- stand someone up
- standstill
- standstill agreement
- stand surety