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5. Synonyms from Merriam-Webster -

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:24 PM

Oct 2012

Synonyms:

applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, nonsense (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/malarkey

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Isn't Malarkey actually Irish for Bullshit....or what?? [View all] Playinghardball Oct 2012 OP

I always understood it to be more in the sense of childish nonsense. hedgehog Oct 2012 #1

It carries far H2O Man Oct 2012 #2

mal = bad; arkey = person from Arkansas Speck Tater Oct 2012 #3

Hey.... murray hill farm Oct 2012 #10

I like how he used "stuff" instead of "shit". nt valerief Oct 2012 #4

Synonyms from Merriam-Webster - pinto Oct 2012 #5

I think it's actually an Americanism... n/t HereSince1628 Oct 2012 #6

I looked up the entymology and it was unknown gollygee Oct 2012 #7

Romney/Malarkey sounds good to me. Auntie Bush Oct 2012 #12

It generally means . . . fleur-de-lisa Oct 2012 #8

Possibly from lark in the sense of 'having a lark' DevonRex Oct 2012 #11

OED says "originally US, origin unknown" with the earliest citation from 1929. Spider Jerusalem Oct 2012 #9