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Malarkey

//məˈlɑːki// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

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

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)

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