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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. pretentious or silly talk or writing;
[syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

baloney \ba*lo"ney\, n. 1. [Believed to be derived form balogna, but perhaps also influenced by blarney.] nonsense; foolishness; bunk; -- also used as an interjection. [Also spelled boloney.] [slang] [PJC] No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney! --Al Smith. [PJC] 2. informal variant of bologna[2], for bologna sausage. [informal] [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bologna \Bo*lo"gna\, n. 1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects. [1913 Webster] 2. A Bologna sausage; also informally called baloney. [1913 Webster] Bologna sausage [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and smoked, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

baloney n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "baloney": applesauce, balls, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, scat, shit, tommyrot, tripe, wind