Hooey

/ˈhuː.i/

Synonyms for "hooey" (58 found)

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Closest matches (12)

Noun(2 words)

applesauce baloney

balls baloney bilge blague blah blah-blah bop bosh bull bullshit

Strong matches (17)

buncombe bunk bunkum bushwa claptrap crap drivel eyewash flam flapdoodle flimflam fudge gammon gas gook guff

Noun(1 words)

gubbins

Related words (29)

gup hogwash hoke hokumhot airhumbug humbuggery jiggery-pokery malarkey moonshine mumbo-jumbo piffle poppycock prattle rot scat shit talk tommyrot trash

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tripe wind

Noun(7 words)

hogwash nonsense phooey poppycock rubbish stuffstuff and nonsense

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More general

7 entries

bunk exclamation hokum interjection meaninglessness nonsense nonsensicality

More specific

5 entries

baloney hogwashpseudoscience claimspecious assertionunfounded claim

Collocations

5 entries

absolute hooeycomplete hooeypure hooeytotal hooeyutter hooey

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

All those suggestions were dismissed as hooey.

Source: tatoeba (4995861)

I heard his speech. It sounded like a whole lot of hooey to me.

Source: wiktionary

For many doctors, meditation resides in the realm of New Age hooey—okay for Indian yogis and students of Eastern religion, but not suitable for scientific study.

Source: wiktionary

Sheldon Cooper: I did, but I think I've kind of outgrown Star Trek. You know, stock characters, ludicrous plots, beam me up. What a load of hooey.

Source: wiktionary

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