malarkey
/məˈlɑːki
/noun [mass noun] informal
Meaningless talk; nonsense: don’t give me that malarkey...
- All of us in the band are having to learn about this showbiz malarkey as we go along.
- Hopefully the new system will be worth this small loss, particularly if it brings an end to that irritating 400 character limit malarkey.
- Not surprisingly, given our growing national devotion to mystical malarkey, Irish people are flocking to this supernatural health centre.
Origin
1920s: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- malt-crusher
- malt-culms
- malt distillery
- malted
- malted milk
- Maltese
- Maltese cross
- Maltese dog
- Maltese lace
- Maltese mushroom
- Maltese terrier
- malt extract
- maltha
- malthacite
- malthazite
- malthoid
- malthouse
- Malthusian
- Malthusianise
- Malthusianism
- Malthusianize
- Malthusian parameter
- Malthus, Thomas Robert
- maltin
- maltiness