Friday, 1 April 2016

Malarkey

Friday 1st April 2016

Malarkey or malarkey \ [muh-lahr-kee] noun, Informal.




noun, Informal.
1. speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum:

Quote
They talk about clothes and boys and all that kind of malarkey. You know.
Donna Tartt, The Secret History, 1992

Origin 
Malarkey is an Americanism that arose in the 1920’s. It is of unknown origin.

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