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Pretentious or silly talk or writing
Answer for the clue "Pretentious or silly talk or writing ", 7 letters:
boloney
Word definitions for boloney in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney , bilgewater , bosh , drool , humbug , taradiddle , tarradiddle , tommyrot , tosh , twaddle ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
baloney \ba*lo"ney\, n. [Believed to be derived form balogna, but perhaps also influenced by blarney.] nonsense; foolishness; bunk; -- also used as an interjection. [Also spelled boloney .] No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney! --Al ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative form of bologna English) 2 (alternative form of baloney English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see baloney .
Usage examples of boloney.
Under his father's tutelage he had acquired a strong objection to what in those days it was fashionable to call "boloney," and which was to be discerned everywhere "That's boloney," he would comment several times a day, and usually with good reason.
And he did it by sifting the boloney out of much of his realm of scholarship, which is rare.
Either side of the border, either way you slice the boloney, a homeless man was in hot water.
You've got something on Randolph March, and I don't mean that boloney about him making shine.
Meanwhile, I shouldn't like you to think I was getting any gray hairs over Marius's slab of ripe boloney about Miss Delmar.