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
- pre-primary
- preprimate
- preprint
- preprocess
- preprocessor
- pre-production
- preproenkephalin
- pre-professional
- preprogram
- preprogramme
- preprohormone
- preproinsulin
- preprostatic
- prep school
- prepster
- prepsychotic
- prepsychotically
- prepuberal
- prepuberally
- prepubertal
- prepubertally
- prepuberty
- prepubescence
- prepubescent
- prepubic