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hooey::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
| Type of | bunk, meaninglessness, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
Examples of hooey
hooey
Hooey, says our industry source, voicing an opinion also held by others in town.
From the washingtonpost.com
Except if you ask Reese Witherspoon about that, she'll tell you it's all hooey.
From the hecklerspray.com
If you think it's just so much academic hooey, you're probably a conservative.
From the toledoblade.com
Other periods have registered just as high, if not higher, on the hooey scale.
From the boston.com
This is what is formerly known as deflecting, and what is commonly known as hooey.
From the theatlantic.com
Because once you cut through all the complicated hooey, wine is about grapes.
From the chron.com
They were finding, to my relief, that the famous five stages were a bunch of hooey.
From the newsday.com
To Joe this is a beautiful and glorious paradox, to me it's a pile of hooey.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
In fact, I've admired plenty of politicians whose policies I believe are pure hooey.
From the washingtontimes.com
- Stuff: senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"
- Hooey was a humour magazine published by Popular Magazines in the 1930s. It presented spoof ads and articles much in the manner popularised by the 50s magazine Mad.
- Silly talk or writing; nonsense
- Also known as a half-hitch, this is the knot used tie three of the calfs feet together after they have been thrown.
