baloney n.
1. (orig. US) in fig. senses of worthlessness, both of ideas and individuals.
(a) nonsense, rubbish, humbug.
Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Jan. 22/3: Getting back to this Schultz again, thousands of men who never heard of that combination of sour-kraut and high-toned bolony, gripped their papers and read that his untimely demise had ‘cast a gloom over the whole community of Bungwall Flat,’ and they (the readers) then felt all the better for it. | ||
Eve. News (NY) 23 Jan. 17/2: He shuffled out, muttering something about ‘a lot of baloney’. | ||
TAD Lex. (1993) 16: The noive of that egg ringin’ up the boss to tell him how lonesome he is. That’s a lotta balogne. | in Zwilling||
Wise-crack Dict. 10/2: Lot of bologna – Gross exaggeration. | ||
Pleasure Man (1997) Act I: Dis ain’t no Hip, and from your bologney I think you’re full o’ hop. | ||
Broadway Melody 43: Who are you handing that boloney to? I’ve conducted Wagnerian op’ra. What do you know about music? | ||
Shipbuilders (1954) 149: ‘Baloney!’ he exploded. | ||
Sharpe of the Flying Squad 78: Dozens of these women made statements, quite a few of them all boloney. | ||
(con. 1917) Soldier Bill 48: That was the kind of baloney they fed the people in the states and gradually they began to believe it. | ||
Battlers 229: ‘A lot of bolony,’ the good unionists scoffed. | ||
Parm Me 58: That old baloney about not being a sweetheart. | ||
(con. 1943–5) To Hell and Back (1950) 62: I talk a lot of bologna. | ||
Come in Spinner (1960) 50: Sherwood reckons there’s more boloney talked about the American standard of living than anything else. | ||
Corner Boy 199: You’re riding high on that baloney Monk fed you. | ||
letter 31 Mar. in Charters II (1999) 333: Oh well, my next book will certainly not be any more of this boloney about ‘me drinking’ etc. | ||
Addict in the Street (1966) 57: I thought it was a bunch of baloney. | ||
Picture Palace 135: He gave me the usual baloney about farmers with furrows on their faces. | ||
Songlines 80: Sacred bloody baloney! | ||
Native Tongue 241: I’m tired of this baloney. | ||
Outlaws (ms.) 29: They go on about it being, like, business and not personal and all of that baloney. | ||
Star Island (2011) 88: You are so full of baloney. | ||
Fabulosa 289/1: balony, balonie rubbish . | ||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 211: [T]he resurgent church’s bigoted baloney on the subject of chastity. |
(b) a worthless, stupid person.
Leather Pushers 41: There’s only one way we can absorb enough pennies [...] and that’s for you to bounce some boloney at this fight club. | ||
Pleasure Man (1997) Act I: Dis must be dat bologney’s code so nobody kin git wise to his job – some bozo! | ||
(con. 1910s) Studs Lonigan (1936) 84: All Studs had to do [...] was to clean up on a couple of big boloneys. | Young Lonigan in||
Young Men in Spats 30: ‘A palooka. [...] Slice him where you like, he was still boloney’. | ||
What’s In It For Me? 71: She’s too nice a girl to go out with a baloney like that. | ||
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 89: That hunk of baloney ... I allude to G. D’Arcy Cheesewright. | ||
(con. 1944) Rats in New Guinea 15: A beautiful hunk of brainless baloney. |
(c) a promiscuous woman.
AS XIX:2 104: A woman who is neither your sister nor your mother is a dingbat, a baloney, or a split-tail. | ‘Vocab. for Lakes [etc.]’||
DAUL 22/2: Baloney. 1. A woman of loose morals. | et al.
2. (orig. US, also baloney pony) the penis.
🎵 Oh, his baloney’s really worth a try / Never fails to satisfy. | ‘My Kitchen Man’||
Broadway Tattler Feb.: [cartoon caption] Widow Smith Loves Her Boloney. ‘That’s just the size I like, Tony. I’ll take it’. | ||
in Limerick (1953) 121: She married a fellow named Tony / Who soon found her fucking the pony. / Said he, ‘What’s it got, / My dear, that I’ve not?’ / Sighed she, ‘Just a yard-long bologna.’. | ||
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | ||
Queens’ Vernacular. | ||
[ | Pay for Play Cheerleaders 🌐 Mr. Towson sat in the chair, his pants still around his ankles, his big cock hanging like a ring of bologna on the edge of the cushion]. | |
🌐 Her applesauce is my appetizer. My chingus? Chow down! She bites my bologna and mangles my masher. She bruises my bratwurst. She schnitzels my wiener. She gallimaufries my gazongas. | ‘La Pétaudière’ in Libido mag.||
Twitter 30 Mar. 🌐 Lauren Boebert’s husband exposed his tattooed baloney pony to a group of teenage girls at a bowling alley snack bar. |
In phrases
to masturbate.
Spankmag.com 22 Oct. 🌐 Beating the balogna. | ‘Male & Female Masturbation Terms’ at
to masturbate.
Homeboy 223: It’s too hot to even bop my baloney. | ||
GeorgeCarlin.com 🌐 Masturbation (Male): bop the baloney. |
(US gay) to have anal intercourse.
Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐. |
(US) to have sexual intercourse.
Call It Sleep (1977) 354: Tell ’er wut I wuz doin’, kid. You jew hewhs! We wuz hidin’ de balonee! |
(US) to talk nonsense.
AS VII:5 336: to shoot the baloney—to talk nonsense. | ‘Johns Hopkins Jargon’ in||
N.Y. Age 5 Dec. 7/1: what a surprise! If Lloyd Miller stopped thowing the baloney. | ‘Truckin ’round Brooklyn’ in
to fellate.
Jimmy Bench-Press 21: You never know with these people [i.e. homosexuals] [...] they gotta get out and have a smoke on the baloney pony every so often, remind themselves they’re fags. |