Synonyms for hooey
- absurdity
- babble
- balderdash
- baloney
- bananas
- blather
- bombast
- bull
- bunk
- bunkum
- claptrap
- drivel
- fatuity
- flightiness
- folly
- foolishness
- fun
- garbage
- gibberish
- giddiness
- hogwash
- idiocy
- imprudence
- inanity
- irrationality
- hot air
- ja
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"A bunch of hooey," she snapped in reply, scowled at Boswellister and jerked her child complainingly down the street behind her.
WORD ORIGIN
"nonsense, foolishness," 1922, American English slang, of unknown origin.
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