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
- techno-head
- techno-hippie
- technoid
- techno-jargon
- techno-junkie
- technol.
- technologic
- technological
- technologically
- technologico-Benthamite
- technologism
- technologist
- technology
- technology assessment
- technology park
- technology transfer
- techno-manager
- techno-managerial
- technomania
- technomaniac
- techno-mechanic
- technomic
- techno-nationalism
- techno-nerd
- technonomy