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BOLONEY

Dictionary entry overview: What does boloney mean?

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

1. pretentious or silly talk or writing

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

Dictionary entry details

• BOLONEY (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 ("boloney" 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))

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