Baloney

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  baloney \ba*lo"ney\, n.
     1. [Believed to be derived form balogna, but perhaps also
        influenced by blarney.] nonsense; foolishness; bunk; --
        also used as an interjection. [Also spelled {boloney}.]
        [slang]
        [PJC]


  
              No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney!
                                                    --Al Smith.
        [PJC]
  
     2. informal variant of {bologna[2]}, for {bologna sausage}.
        [informal]
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bologna \Bo*lo"gna\, n.
     1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various
        objects.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A Bologna sausage; also informally called {baloney}.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {Bologna sausage} [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage
        made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and
        smoked, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin.
  
     {Bologna stone} (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate,
        found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers,
        first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when
        calcined.
  
     {Bologna vial}, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly
        into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body,
        as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a
        bullet may be dropped into it without injury.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  baloney
       n : pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: {boloney}, {bilgewater},
            {bosh}, {drool}, {humbug}, {taradiddle}, {tarradiddle},
           {tommyrot}, {tosh}, {twaddle}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "baloney":
     applesauce, balls, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, bull,
     bullshit, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flapdoodle,
     flimflam, gammon, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey,
     horsefeathers, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, jiggery-pokery,
     malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, scat, shit,
     tommyrot, tripe, wind