malarkey

ma·lar·key

noun \mə-ˈlär-kē\

Definition of MALARKEY

: insincere or foolish talk : bunkum

Variants of MALARKEY

ma·lar·key also ma·lar·ky \mə-ˈlär-kē\

Examples of MALARKEY

1. He thinks everything politicians say is just a bunch of malarkey.
2. <the old lady declared that everything politicians say is pure malarkey>

Origin of MALARKEY

origin unknown

First Known Use: 1929

Related to MALARKEY

Synonyms

applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, nonsense (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle

Related Words

absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy; absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness; hoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery; gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole); double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus

Near Antonyms

levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness; common sense, horse sense, sense; discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom

Rhymes with MALARKEY

autarchy, autarky, dyarchy, eparchy, exarchy, heptarchy, menarche, pentarchy, squirearchy, tetrarchy, triarchy, trierarchy