1.
[syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
baloney
n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney,
boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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