Found 2 items, similar to baloney.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: baloney
baloney
n : pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn:
boloney,
bilgewater,
bosh,
drool,
humbug,
taradiddle,
tarradiddle,
tommyrot,
tosh,
twaddle]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: baloney
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]
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.
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