malarkey

also n. Slang

Exaggerated or foolish talk, usually intended to deceive: "snookered by a lot of malarkey" (New Republic).

[Origin unknown.]

or malarky

(muh-LAR-kee)
noun

1. Misleading speech or writing.

2. Nonsense; foolishness.

[Of unknown origin.]

Usage:

"Malarkey is not uncommon out in this neck of the woods. Anyone keeping up with B.C. politics, fast cat ferries, the Vancouver Stock Exchange, leaky condos or the Canucks making a playoff run has bought a load of it at one time. Some of it we're still paying off on the malarkey instalment plan." — Mark Laba; Sleight of Tongue; Vancouver Province (Canada); Oct 24, 2002.

"More than half a million people take to the streets to enjoy the fireworks spectacle but it is a family audience, without any of the Scottish alcohol-fuelled malarkey." — Mike J Wilson; Bright Lights, Party City; The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland); Jan 17, 2004.

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also malarky

noun

Something that does not have or make sense: balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash, twaddle. Informal tommyrot. Slang applesauce, baloney, bilge, bull¹, bunk², crap, hooey. See knowledge/ignorance.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - sludder, pjat, fup

Nederlands (Dutch)
onzin

Français (French)
n. - balivernes

Deutsch (German)
n. - Blabla

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σάχλες, ανοησίες

Italiano (Italian)
fandonia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - bobagem (f)

Русский (Russian)
выдумка, болтовня

Español (Spanish)
n. - discurso tonto e insincero, cosas faltas de sentido

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - bluff, skitsnack

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
说大话, 胡说

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 說大話, 胡說

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 우선 듣기 좋은 이야기, 허튼소리

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ばかげた話

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) هراء, كلام فارغ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שטויות‬

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