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Baloney

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of bologna.

n. Nonsense.

interjection. Used to express disagreement or exasperation.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A type of smoked sausage; bologna.

n. Nonsense.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. nonsense; foolishness; bunk; -- also used as an interjection.

n. informal variant of bologna{2}, for bologna sausage.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. pretentious or silly talk or writing

Word Usage

"But it is certainly a tribute to baloney and, by extension, to the Italian city of Bologna, of which the word baloney is a corruption, that Mr Kennedy found the expression so readily to hand in making his denial."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

hokum nonsense nonsensicality meaninglessness bunk

Cross Reference

Words from Variety

Variant

bologna sausage bologna{2}

Form

no matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Berlusconi Bologna Castiglione Marconi Maroni

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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