hooey
pronunciation
How to pronounce hooey in British English:
UK [ˈhu:i]
How to pronounce hooey in American English:
US [ˈhui]
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- Noun:
- senseless talk
Word Origin
- hooey (n.)
- "nonsense, foolishness," 1922, American English slang, of unknown origin.
Example
- 1. The whole newspaper is nothing but hooey today !
- 2. Don 't listen to their hooey , it doesn 't d exist .
- 3. The romantic hooey that always sold women 's cosmetics ( bjerry adler )
- 4. I always thought that was hooey .
- 5. So you don 't think it is hooey .