Synonyms of the word hooey


HOOEYBUNK - HOKUM - MEANINGLESSNESS - NONSENSE - NONSENSICALITY - POPPYCOCK - STUFF

hooey

  • n. (slang) Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s).

bunk

  • n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
  • n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  • n. (military) A cot.
  • n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  • n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • v. To occupy a bunk.
  • v. To provide a bunk.
  • n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  • adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
  • v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
  • v. (dated) To expel from a school.

hokum

  • n. Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.

meaninglessness

  • n. The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
  • n. Anything that is meaningless.

nonsense

  • n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
  • n. An untrue statement.
  • n. Something foolish.
  • n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
  • n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
  • v. To make nonsense of.
  • v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
  • v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
  • adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
  • adj. nonsensical.

nonsensicality

  • n. (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonsensical.
  • n. (countable) A nonsensical belief, remark, etc.

poppycock

  • n. (colloquial) foolish talk; nonsense.

stuff

  • n. Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
  • n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
  • n. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
  • n. Abstract substance or character.
  • n. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
  • n. (slang, informal) Substitution for trivial details.
  • n. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
  • n. (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
  • n. (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
  • n. (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship…
  • n. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
  • v. (transitive) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
  • v. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
  • v. (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break.
  • v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
  • v. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing…
  • v. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
  • v. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense…
  • v. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or…
  • v. (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
  • v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, idiomatic) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
  • interj. (slang) A filler term used to dismiss explanation.

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