baloney

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• UK: /bəˈləʊni/
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• Canada, US: /bəˈloʊni/
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• Australian: /bəˈləʉni/
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• rhymes with -əʊni
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• CMU ARPABET: B AH0 L OW1 N IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Phonetic spelling of bologna.

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

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: mortadel·la — type of smoked sausage
• Finnish: lauantaimakkara — type of smoked sausage
• German: Fleischwurst — type of smoked sausage
• German: Mortadella — type of smoked sausage
• German: Lyoner — type of smoked sausage
• Hungarian: párizsi — type of smoked sausage
• Hungarian: parizer — type of smoked sausage
• Hungarian: mortadella — type of smoked sausage
• Italian: mortadella — type of smoked sausage
• Kyrgyz: бекер сөз (beker söz) — type of smoked sausage
• Kyrgyz: болбогон нерсе (bolbogon nerse) — type of smoked sausage
• Neapolitan: murtadella — type of smoked sausage
• Neapolitan: murtatella — type of smoked sausage
• Polish: mortadela — type of smoked sausage
• Portuguese: mortadela — type of smoked sausage
• Spanish: mortadela — type of smoked sausage
• Bulgarian: глу́пости (glúposti) — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Chinese Mandarin: 胡扯 (húchě) — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Chinese Mandarin: 鬼話 /鬼话 (guǐhuà) — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Czech: blbost — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Czech: blbosti — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Czech: nesmysl — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Czech: nesmysly — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Dutch: onzin — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Dutch: nonsens — nonsense — see also nonsense
• German: Quatsch — nonsense — see also nonsense
• German: Käse — nonsense — see also nonsense
• German: Unsinn — nonsense — see also nonsense
• German: Schwachsinn — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Greek: αερολογίες (aerologíes) — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Italian: stupidaggine — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Italian: fesseria — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Italian: idiozia — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Italian: sciocchezza — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Latin: nūgae — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Latin: gerrae — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Polish: nonsens — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Russian: колбасня (kolbasnja) — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Spanish: tonterías — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Spanish: inventos — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Spanish: chorrada — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Spanish: chuminada — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Spanish: farfolla — nonsense — see also nonsense
• Ottoman Turkish: صاچمه (saçma) — nonsense — see also nonsense