baloney
/bəˈləʊni
/noun informal
1 [mass noun] Foolish or deceptive talk; nonsense: I don’t buy it—it’s all a load of baloney...
- No nonsense, no baloney, not a lot of fanfare, and it's proceeding very quickly.
- This thing about them not going well is a load of baloney.
- Just when it looked like the magic of the cup was being exposed as a load of old baloney, the substitute required only three minutes to underline his faith in it.
2 North American term for bologna.Mortodella (from which we get our boloney) comes from Bologna....
- And provided you don't come foisting your legumes on me, I won't slap you with my baloney.
- Well, folks, it's nowhere near as hard as trying to unwrap a baloney and cheese sandwich or open a bag of Fritos.
Origin
1920s: sense 1 said to be a corruption of bologna.
Rhymes
- Chevalier, Maurice
- cheval mirror
- chevet
- Cheviot
- Cheviot Hills
- chevon
- chevron
- chevrotain
- Chevvy
- Chevy
- chew
- Chewa
- chewable
- chewer
- chewiness
- chewing gum
- chewing tobacco
- chew someone out
- chew (someone's) ass
- chew something over
- chew something up
- chew stick
- chew the cud
- chew the fat (or rag)
- chew the scenery