Sunday, April 26, 2015

Word of the Day

malarkey
\muh-LAHR-kee\
noun
1. Informal. speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.

Quotes
Underneath all that free and easy hippie malarkey she is actually the most awful prig…
-- Zoƫ Heller, What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, 2003

Origin
Malarkey is an Americanism that arose in the 1920s. It is of unknown origin.

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