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baloney

or bo·lo·ney

[ buh-loh-nee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

baloney

/ bəˈləʊnɪ /

Origin of baloney¹

1915–20, Americanism; 1925–30 baloney fordef 2; alteration of bologna, with substitution of -ey ² for final schwa

Origin of baloney¹

C20: changed from Bologna (sausage)

Partisans in Washington will smirk that these things are optimistic baloney and keep sending their troops off to battle.

Speculation that the scrutiny of Tea Party groups might have been directed out of the White House is “baloney,” says Dean.

He grew up in Montana and uses folksy phrases like “happy camper” and “total baloney.”

In recent years, that ancient sales tactic has been easy to dismiss as baloney.

Just cut the usual diplomatic and political baloney, and try.

But you had been talking to some liar in Dallas who has been feeding you all this baloney about me.

I am saying—and I am going to stick to my story—that Lee is an agent, then a lot of this is a lot of baloney.

Sometimes I come close to thinking it's a lot of baloney trying to be any decent kind of Demon, even a good Entertainer.

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