Boloney

/bəˈloʊni/ noun

Nonsense, lies, or something regarded as ridiculous or untrue; also an alternative spelling of bologna the meat.

Originally from bologna sausage (the meat from Bologna, Italy), but evolved into slang meaning something fake or inferior by the 1920s, as people humorously dismissed the processed meat as 'not real meat.'

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