Malarkey
/məˈlɑːki/ name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Nonsense; rubbish. informal
"I decided it was a bunch of malarkey and stopped reading about halfway through."
- 2 empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"Personally, I think that's a bunch of malarkey."
Etymology
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)