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Apr. 1, 2015
Word of the Day

malarkey Audio Pronunciation
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\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…
-- Zoë 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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