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BALONEY

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• BALONEY (noun)
The noun BALONEY has 1 sense:

1. pretentious or silly talk or writing

Familiarity information: BALONEY used as a noun is very rare.

• BALONEY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Pretentious or silly talk or writing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

baloney; tosh; tommyrot; humbug; drool; bosh; boloney; bilgewater; twaddle; taradiddle; tarradiddle

Hypernyms ("baloney" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

"Blood is thicker than water."
(English proverb)
"«He who teaches himself hath a fool for a teacher», but he who does not teach himself has no teachers at all."
(Christopher Berkeley)
"What is the connection with Alexander's moustache?"
(Armenian proverb)
"Don't postpone until tomorrow, what you can do today."
(Dutch proverb)

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