"Phony baloney" or "that's a bunch of baloney" is a dismissal of the sort of philosophical discussion that spread out of centres of higher education -- particularly Bologna docta. Anti-intellectualism is not a new phenomenon, and the folks who were using the "baloney" pronunciation would probably have loved it if the folks they were insulting ...

Oct 22, 2014 · The term phony baloney (sometimes written phoney baloney, and with or without a hyphen) has a very similar meaning —n. nonsense; baloney. —adj. nonsensical; foolish. [Infoplease.com, attributed to Random House Unabridged Dictionary] The Urban Dictionary suggests a slightly stronger meaning. A substitute to the word "lie/s" and to a extent ...

bologna also baloney n {short for Bologna sausage, fr. Bologna, Italy} (1596) : a large smoked sausage of beef, veal, and pork; also: a sausage made (as of turkey) to resemble bologna. So, according to the Eleventh Collegiate, baloney may refer to nonsense or to a sausage, but bologna may only properly apply to a sausage.

The case for Hippy Dippy Balony: the spelling of hippy with a final y predates the spelling ending ie:. One of the earliest attestations of the term hippy is found in the "Dictionary of Hip Words and Phrases" included in the liner notes for the 1959 comedy album How to Speak Hip, a parody based on the burgeoning Greenwich Village scene.

Actually, it's more like "bologna" and "baloney" because while there are two spellings for the actual thing, there's only one spelling for the figurative thing. If something is false, then it's only "baloney," not "bologna." Likewise, if you run into a snag, it's a "hiccup," not a "hiccough." –

Unlawful and lawful are good, stout Anglo-Saxon words that tend to be of the law-- that is, they are used in statute -- while illegal and legal are fine, robust Latinate words that have historically tended to be about the law-- they're lawyer talk, full of baloney (Bologna). –

Jul 29, 2016 · Both the words, balderdash and baloney refer only to nonsense. Baloney is a stronger word meant for 'pretentious nonsense.'The Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary makes it clear that it is used as a generalized expression of disagreement. There is no place for such harsh words in any constructive literary criticism.

Mar 12, 2017 · I remember the push, when I was a child, to adopt the "metric system", and it just didn't take root. Americans of my generation (tail-end boomer) are fiercely protective of our inches, feet and yards, and think of it as "standard" (as opposed to that foreign "metric" baloney).

Wiktionary says this of "screw the pooch": The term was first documented in the early "Mercury" days of the US space program. It came there from a Yale graduate named John Rawlings who helped