blarney
\BLAHR-nee\
noun
1. flattering or wheedling talk; cajolery.
2. deceptive or misleading talk; nonsense; hooey: a lot of blarney about why he was broke.
Quotes
With a little more prudence Dick Turpin would have made a good diddler; with a trifle less blarney, Daniel O'Connell; with a pound or two more brains, Charles the Twelfth.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, "Raising the Wind; or, Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences," Saturday Courier, October 14, 1843
Origin
Blarney came to English in the mid-1700s from the name of the hamlet in Ireland, where a stone in Blarney Castle is said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it.
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