What does hooey mean?

Definitions for hooey
ˈhu ihooey

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycocknoun

    senseless talk

    "don't give me that stuff"

Wiktionary

  1. hooeynoun

    Silly talk or writing; nonsense.

    I heard his speech. It sounded like a whole lot of hooey to me.

  2. Etymology: Possibly related to phooey, possibly a euphemism for horseshit, possibly from Russian хуй

Wikipedia

  1. Hooey

    Hooey was a humour magazine published by Popular Magazines in the 1930s. The magazine presented spoof ads and articles much in the manner popularised by the 1950s magazine Mad.

ChatGPT

  1. hooey

    Hooey is a term used to describe information or statements that are considered nonsense, false, or ridiculous. It is often used in response to something that is not believable or lacks credibility.

Wikidata

  1. Hooey

    Hooey was a humour magazine published by Popular Magazines in the 1930s. It presented spoof ads and articles much in the manner popularised by the 50s magazine Mad.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HOOEY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hooey is ranked #49268 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Hooey surname appeared 427 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Hooey.

    77.2% or 330 total occurrences were White.
    16.6% or 71 total occurrences were Black.
    3.9% or 17 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.1% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hooey in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hooey in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of hooey in a Sentence

  1. James Mitchell:

    It's a bunch of hooey, some of the things are just plain not true.

  2. Dick Cheney:

    What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it, i think that's all a bunch of hooey. The program was authorized. The agency did not want to proceed without authorization, and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program.

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