baloney

See also: Baloney

English

Etymology 1

Pre-sliced American baloney

Phonetic spelling of bologna.

Alternative forms

• boloney
• bologna
• polony

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈləʊni/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /bəˈloʊni/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /bəˈləʉni/

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• Rhymes: -əʊni

Noun

baloney (countable and uncountable, plural baloneys)

1. A type of sausage; bologna.

Synonyms

• Bologna sausage
• mortadella

Translations

type of smoked sausage

Catalan: mortadel·la (ca) f Finnish: lauantaimakkara (fi) (similar sausage sold in Finland) German: Fleischwurst (de) f, Mortadella (de) f, Lyoner (de) f Hungarian: párizsi (hu), parizer (hu), mortadella Italian: mortadella (it) f Kyrgyz: бекер сөз (ky) f (beker söz), болбогон нерсе (ky) f (bolbogon nerse) Neapolitan: murtadella, murtatella Portuguese: mortadela (pt) f Spanish: mortadela (es) f

Further reading

• Bologna sausage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Origin unclear. Perhaps from the Polari slang word balonie. Alternatively, perhaps simply from bologna (“sausage”), possibly used as a minced oath for bullshit.

Alternative forms

• balonie (UK)
• bologna
• boloney

Noun

baloney (uncountable)

2. (uncountable, chiefly US, slang) Nonsense.

   That's a bunch of baloney! I don't believe one word!

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:nonsense.

Derived terms

• baloney pony
• balonium
• no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
• globaloney
• phony-baloney

Translations

nonsense — see also nonsense

Bulgarian: глу́пости (bg) (glúposti) Czech: blbost (cs) f, blbosti f pl, nesmysl (cs) m, nesmysly m pl Dutch: onzin (nl) m, nonsens (nl) m German: Quatsch (de) m, Käse (de) m, Unsinn (de) m, Schwachsinn (de) m Greek: αερολογίες (el) f or pl (aerologíes) Italian: stupidaggine (it) f, fesseria (it) f, idiozia (it) f, sciocchezza (it) f Latin: nūgae f pl, gerrae f pl Polish: nonsens (pl) Russian: колбасня (ru) f (kolbasnja) Spanish: tonterías (es) f, inventos (es) m, chorrada (es) f, chuminada (es) f, farfolla (es) f

See also

• Appendix:Words from Variety

Anagrams

• Boylean, Lebonya