Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang Nonsense: "the romantic hooey that always sold women's cosmetics” ( Jerry Adler).
Wiktionary
- n. slang Silly talk or writing; nonsense.
WordNet 3.0
- n. senseless talk
Etymologies
- Possibly related to phooey, possibly a euphemism for horseshit, possibly from Russian хуй (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Grab a hankie, because the stench of hooey is going to get very strong, very fast.”
“It's just more hooey from the nattering nabobs of negativity.”
“Maybe I don’t get out enough, but all of that end times hooey is far removed from any point that I was trying to make.”
“Furthermore, this is a plan that canât go wrong, because if it turns out the whole IQ link to race is a bunch of hooey, which is not unlikely, the fact remains there are lots of African American women who canât find reliable mates and likewise lots of Chinese men whose potential wives were aborted.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
“While I would agree with the Governor that talk of "post-racialism" is hooey, that is about the only thing in his statement that I can agree with.”
Keli Goff: Why Gov. Paterson is Right: Race Will Cost Him His Job
“We've had it with what Truman would have called the hooey of politics -- the creation of candidates and personality persona by ghost writers, spin doctors, Madison Avenue experts and so forth.”
“Who knew that not having any spine to oppose blatantly bad Bush II SCOTUS appointments (at least we will hear no more old-school 'activist judge' hooey, which is something I guess) would turn out so badly for the incompetent Dems?”
“No! Oh my God! That is such [hooey]," Goldberg responded (only she didn't actually say "hooey").”
The Washington Post: Oprah no match for Barbara Walters and Bill O'Reilly and 'The View'
“While the UUA's source statement does not actually contain the word "hooey" there is a section that you may feel comes close.”
“Most iPhone 4 owners commenting on Apple's own support forum denounced the explanation, with one user calling it "hooey" and "bogus." iPhone owners can return their phones to any Apple retail store or to the company's online store for a full refund within 30 days of their purchase.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hooey’.
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•Public List: Delightful Ejaculations
All those awesome phrases you hear that you want to say every chance you get. Thanks to adoarns for the inspiration (on the vitamin h page).
just tits, jumping jesus on ..., sweet mother of p..., great day in the ..., ye gods and littl..., leaping lizards, holy cats, hot damn, good gosh miss agnes, mother dog, good night, hoover dam! and 102 more...
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Words with Four Consecutive Vowels
This oughta be a short list, eh?
queue, queuing, homoiousian, miaou, onomatopoeia, hawaiian, iroquoian, kauai, kilauea, longueuil, louie, montesquieu and 58 more...
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Expressions of disbelief or disagreement
bollocks, come off it, rubbish, as if, bullshit, guff, i don't believe it, are you mad, tosh, nonsense, garbage, bunkum and 58 more...
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Nonsense
Synonyms of "nonsense"
tomfoolery, balderdash, poppycock, lalapalooza, hullabaloo, hodgepodge, gibberish, shenanigans, hootenanny, jabberwocky, gobbledygook, mummery and 21 more...
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Verecund, flivver, etc
Just some words I happen to enjoy. Some thread-worn, some not.
yegg, yob, verecund, amatory, fermata, threepenny, gruntled, flivver, gamboge, decolletage, ordure, nudnik and 175 more...
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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sarahatlee's Words
pants, nekkid, schadenfreude, unseasonably, illicit, glaswegian, cripes, futz, drawers, scupper, coulrophobic, redacted and 254 more...
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amcd56's Words
undisillusioned, truthiness, wikiality, nonunparallel, bafflegab, otiose, snarky, gynotikolobomasso..., battology, unasinous, zaftig, mumbo-jumbo and 122 more...
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Humbug and bafflegab
oil, rot, gas, gup, pop, jive, bull, jazz, guff, pish, tosh, flam and 83 more...
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Bad Argumentation
bunk, hooey, platitudinous, lilliputian, picayune, cavil, quibble, paltry, recondite, hackneyed, pedantic, absurd and 3 more...
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Utter Nonsense
folderol, mumbo jumbo, jabberwocky, gibberish, codswallop, tripe, drivel, hogwash, guff, balderdash, poppycock, gobbledygook and 5 more...
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Words for Nonsense, Blather, and Trash
tommyrot, poppycock, moonshine, codswallop, hogwash, balderdash, gobbledygook, malarkey, flapdoodle, bunkum, hooey, flimshaw and 30 more...
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Hogwash!
nonsense, tripe, twaddle, bullshit, poppycock, palaver, balderdash, baloney, gobbledygook, bunk, claptrap, hooey and 88 more...
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dlestarjette's Words
fop, boffin, fret, autodidact, steppe, plateau, lollard, logophile, hooey, caustic, assuage, sanguine and 1 more...
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just because
These are words I am picking just because I like them.
I might make more categorized lists later, we shall have to wait and see.animated, asperger, ersatz, surreptitious, extraneous, asynchronous, erroneous, surreal, dreamlike, lackadaisical, opium, firnification and 55 more...
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neversent's Words
meander, palooka, malarkey, hooey, perspicacious, mellifluous, cacophony, huzzah, hullabaloo, codger, abscond, cahoots
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