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Synonyms for malarkey

  • noun

Most common

hogwash guff twaddle balderdash non-sense bull-speak apple sauce

All synonyms

Noun

1. Bullshit

guff, hogwash, balderdash, twaddle, blather, baloney US AU, poppycock informal, piffle, hokum, drivel, gobbledygook informal US, gobbledegook UK, rubbish UK, tripe UK, humbug, jazz, bosh, blah, bull, blah-blah, trash US, bunk, nothingness

Other

non-sense, bull-speak, moon-shine, clap-trap, apple sauce, flap doodle, mumbo-jumbo

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Nonsense; rubbish.

    I decided it was a bunch of malarkey and stopped reading about halfway through.

Related words

Other spellings
malarky mallarky mullarkey

Forms

Plural
malarkeys → guffs, hogwashes, twaddles, blathers…

Example sentences

  • hogwash I think that's a lot of hogwash.
  • guff And don't give me any guff about it.
  • twaddle Personally, I think it's a load of twaddle.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
malarkeyrising
hogwashsteady
guffrising
twaddlesteady
balderdashsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
jazz1, bull1, blah1, bunk1, bosh1, guff1
5 letters
trash1, tripe1, hokum2
6 letters
drivel2, humbug2, piffle
7 letters
rubbish2, baloney3, hogwash2, blather2, twaddle2
9 letters
poppycock3
10 letters
balderdash3
11 letters
nothingness3
12 letters
gobbledygook4, gobbledegook

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hokum2 = 2 syllables).