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Looks like a variant on hooey, which the OED defines as:

Humbug, nonsense.

It’s marked as slang that was originally from the U.S. Also so labelled is phooey, which is given to mean:

An expression of strong disagreement with or disapproval of something said. Also as sb., applied to the thing said: nonsense, ‘baloney’.

Both terms’ first citations are from the 1920s.

1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 100 — My prof’s full of hooey. He doesn’t know a C theme from an A one.

 

1929 Sun (Baltimore) 11 July 11/1 — Girls are described as weenies, janes, dames and broads. A mad-man is phooey, crackers or blooey.

Of hooey it says “Origin unknown”.

Looks like a variant on hooey, which the OED defines as:

Humbug, nonsense.

It’s marked as slang that was originally from the U.S. Also so labelled is phooey, which is given to mean:

An expression of strong disagreement with or disapproval of something said. Also as sb., applied to the thing said: nonsense, ‘baloney’.

Both terms’ first citations are from the 1920s.

1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 100 — My prof’s full of hooey. He doesn’t know a C theme from an A one.

 

1929 Sun (Baltimore) 11 July 11/1 — Girls are described as weenies, janes, dames and broads. A mad-man is phooey, crackers or blooey.

Of hooey it says “Origin unknown”.

Looks like a variant on hooey, which the OED defines as:

Humbug, nonsense.

It’s marked as slang that was originally from the U.S. Also so labelled is phooey, which is given to mean:

An expression of strong disagreement with or disapproval of something said. Also as sb., applied to the thing said: nonsense, ‘baloney’.

Both terms’ first citations are from the 1920s.

1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 100 — My prof’s full of hooey. He doesn’t know a C theme from an A one.

1929 Sun (Baltimore) 11 July 11/1 — Girls are described as weenies, janes, dames and broads. A mad-man is phooey, crackers or blooey.

Of hooey it says “Origin unknown”.

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Looks like a variant on hooey, which the OED defines as:

Humbug, nonsense.

It’s marked as slang that was originally from the U.S. Also so labelled is phooey, which is given to mean:

An expression of strong disagreement with or disapproval of something said. Also as sb., applied to the thing said: nonsense, ‘baloney’.

Both terms’ first citations are from the 1920s.

1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 100 — My prof’s full of hooey. He doesn’t know a C theme from an A one.

1929 Sun (Baltimore) 11 July 11/1 — Girls are described as weenies, janes, dames and broads. A mad-man is phooey, crackers or blooey.

Of hooey it says “Origin unknown”.

Looks like a variant on hooey, which the OED defines as:

Humbug, nonsense.

It’s marked as slang that was originally from the U.S. Also so labelled is phooey, which is given to mean:

An expression of strong disagreement with or disapproval of something said. Also as sb., applied to the thing said: nonsense, ‘baloney’.

Both terms’ first citations are from the 1920s.

Looks like a variant on hooey, which the OED defines as:

Humbug, nonsense.

It’s marked as slang that was originally from the U.S. Also so labelled is phooey, which is given to mean:

An expression of strong disagreement with or disapproval of something said. Also as sb., applied to the thing said: nonsense, ‘baloney’.

Both terms’ first citations are from the 1920s.

1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 100 — My prof’s full of hooey. He doesn’t know a C theme from an A one.

1929 Sun (Baltimore) 11 July 11/1 — Girls are described as weenies, janes, dames and broads. A mad-man is phooey, crackers or blooey.

Of hooey it says “Origin unknown”.

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tchrist
  • 137.3k
  • 49
  • 376
  • 609

Looks like a variant on hooey, which the OED defines as:

Humbug, nonsense.

It’s marked as slang that was originally from the U.S. Also so labelled is phooey, which is given to mean:

An expression of strong disagreement with or disapproval of something said. Also as sb., applied to the thing said: nonsense, ‘baloney’.

Both terms’ first citations are from the 1920s.