malarkey

FREQ #36275

n. 假情假意的话, 蠢话, 空话

发音

UK /məˈlɑːki/
US /məˈlɑɹki/

词形变化

malarkeys 复数 malarkeys

别名

malachy malarky mallarky mullarkey

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Nonsense; rubbish.

    非正式

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

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

wind jazz nothingness malarky

上位词 2

talk talking

词源

Of unknown origin; the word was popularized by the Irish-American cartoonist Thomas Aloysius (“Tad”) Dorgan (1877–1929), who started using it in cartoons on March 9, 1922. Maybe from Irish mallachtóireacht or Greek μαλακίες (malakíes)

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