baloney \ba*lo"ney\, n.
   1. [Believed to be derived form balogna, but perhaps also
      influenced by blarney.] nonsense; foolishness; bunk; --
      also used as an interjection. [Also spelled boloney.]
      [slang]
      [PJC]

            No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney!
                                                  --Al Smith.
      [PJC]

   2. informal variant of bologna[2], for bologna sausage.
      [informal]
      [PJC]

	

	Bologna \Bo*lo"gna\, n.
   1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various
      objects.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A Bologna sausage; also informally called baloney.
      [1913 Webster]

   Bologna sausage [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage
      made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and
      smoked, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin.

   Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate,
      found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers,
      first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when
      calcined.

   Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly
      into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body,
      as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a
      bullet may be dropped into it without injury.
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	baloney
    n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney,
         boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
         taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]

	

	42 Moby Thesaurus words for "baloney":
   applesauce, balls, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, bull,
   bullshit, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flapdoodle,
   flimflam, gammon, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey,
   horsefeathers, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, jiggery-pokery,
   malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, scat, shit,
   tommyrot, tripe, wind