malarkey

• malachy
• mallarky
• malarky
• mullarkey

American English, of unknown origin; perhaps from Greek μαλακία (malakía, “stupidity, idiocy, nonsense, bullshit”). Popularized by Thomas Aloysius Dorgan, Irish American cartoonist who started using it in cartoons on March 9, 1922.[1]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈlɑɹ.ki/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈlɑː.ki/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki

malarkey (uncountable)

1. (informal) Nonsense; rubbish. [from 1920s]
   • 2001 [1870], Frederick Paul Walter, “chapter 29”, in 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, translation of Vingt mille lieues sous les mers by Jules Verne:

     "An underwater tunnel!" he exclaimed. "A connection between two seas! Who ever heard of such malarkey!"

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

• See also Thesaurus:nonsense

• yarmalke, yarmelka