baloney

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

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]