Baloney is foolish talk that nobody should believe. That's baloney, a load of baloney, pure baloney.
It is American, mild and slightly comic, and it dismisses without swearing — which is why politicians reach for it. The spelling follows how the sausage name bologna is said in America, and the sausage is named after the Italian city.
1nounbaloneyFoolish talk that nobody should believe.
“He says he was stuck in traffic, but that's baloney; he overslept.”
baloney is nonsense.
Also accepted in games: hogwash
A phonetic spelling of bologna, the sausage named after the Italian city. The sense of nonsense is American slang of the 1920s.
Phonetic spelling of bologna.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA