BALONEY or BOLONEY

PRONUNCIATION: (buh-LOH-nee)

MEANING: noun: Nonsense, such as foolish, deceptive, or pretentious talk.

ETYMOLOGY: From respelling of bologna (pronounced buh-LOH-nee), a kind of seasoned sausage, from the Italian city of Bologna (buh-LON-yuh; in Italian: bo-lo-nyah). Earliest documented use: 1928.
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BALOONEY - light, tending to float away (or at least waft in the breeze)

BOONEY - the hinterlands (fr. bunduk, a remote mountain)

BALCONEY - a rabbit or hyrax that lives on your apartment terrace