baloney

baloney
    n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: {baloney},
         {boloney}, {bilgewater}, {bosh}, {drool}, {humbug},
         {taradiddle}, {tarradiddle}, {tommyrot}, {tosh}, {twaddle}]
    

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.
      [1913 Webster]
    

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