malarkey
Syllables: ma·lar·key/məˈlɑːki/US/məˈlɑɹki/
malarkey noun: nonsense; rubbish.
Noun
malarkey (plural (rare) malarkeys)
- Nonsense; rubbish.
- I decided it was a bunch of malarkey and stopped reading about halfway through.
- Malachy—You said it—I wouldn't trust a lawyer no further than I could throw a case of Scotch.1934 April 2, Thomas Aloysius Dorgan, The Capital Times, Madison, Wis.: Capital Times Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6
- Synonyms:
- absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil
Proper noun capitalized: Malarkey
Malarkey (plural Malarkeys)
- A surname.
malarkey meaning in Tamil and Bengali
malarkey in Tamil
- பொருளற்ற பேச்சு
malarkey in Bengali
- অর্থহীন, বাজে কথা
Examples of malarkey in a sentence
- If I told you that we had launched the glove washing program without effort it would be purely malarkey.1957 July, Merrick Pratt, “Administering the Protective Equipment Program”, in Gerard J. Riley, editor, Modern Sanitation: The Magazine of...
- Save that malarkey for those old fossils at Midas Creek!1957 October 19, Robert Ormond Case, “Trouble at Midas Creek”, in Ben Hibbs, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 230, number 16...
- None of our FBIers or state troopers or all them other malarkeys get to hear a word of it.1983, Donald E[dwin] Westlake, chapter 23, in Why Me?, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN; republished [New York, N.Y.]...
- You know, a sort of I-want-to-find-out-who-I-am malarkey." / "And did she find out who she was?" / "Not really.1998, Nick Hornby, chapter 13, in About a Boy, London: Gollancz, →ISBN; republished as chapter 13, in About a Boy, New York, N.Y....
Synonyms of malarkey
- absurdity
- all my eye
- all my eye and Betty Martin
- bafflegab
- balderdash
- balls
- baloney
- Bandini
- baragouin
- batcrap
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Forms of malarkey
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | malachy |
| alternative form | malarky |
| alternative form | mallarky |
| alternative form | mullarkey |
| plural (rare) | malarkeys |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Malarkeys |
Origin of malarkey
Of unknown origin; the word was popularized by the Irish-American cartoonist Thomas Aloysius (“Tad”) Dorgan (1877–1929), who started using it in cartoons on March 9, 1922. Maybe from Irish mallachtóireacht or Greek μαλακίες (malakíes)
Words that rhyme with malarkey
Questions about malarkey
- What does malarkey mean?
- Malarkey means nonsense; rubbish.
- What is malarkey in Tamil?
- Malarkey in Tamil is பொருளற்ற பேச்சு. See Malarkey meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use malarkey in a sentence?
- If I told you that we had launched the glove washing program without effort it would be purely malarkey.
- What part of speech is malarkey?
- Malarkey can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce malarkey?
- Malarkey is pronounced /məˈlɑːki/ (UK).
Words near malarkey in the dictionary
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