malarkey.
Nonsense; rubbish.
Meaning & usage
Nonsense; rubbish.
I decided it was a bunch of malarkey and stopped reading about halfway through.
Where this word comes from
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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