Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hooey! excl.

nonsense!

1924		P. Marks Plastic Age 200: Hooey! Anybody can act good enough for the Dramat.
1936		‘Josphine Tey’ Shilling for Candles (1958) 47: ‘Hooey! [...] not one of us cared a brass farthing for her’.
1938		F.D. Sharpe Sharpe of the Flying Squad 9: I read how crooks spat on the ground as I walked by – hooey.
1959		G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 127: When was this? When we were at Mrs Stevens’s? Hooey!