different between malarkey vs lassicalnahuatl

English

Etymology

Origin unknown; perhaps from Greek ??????? (malakós, “soft; compliant, meek; gentle, mellow, mild, mild-mannered”) or ??????? (malakía, “masturbation; (figuratively) idiocy, stupidity; bullshit, nonsense”). The word was popularized by the Irish-American cartoonist Thomas Aloysius (“Tad”) Dorgan (1877–1929), who started using it in cartoons on March 9, 1922.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??l??ki/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??l??ki/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ki
• Hyphenation: ma?lar?key

Noun

malarkey (plural (rare) malarkeys)

1. (originally US, informal) Nonsense; rubbish. [from 1920s]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense

Alternative forms

• malachy
• malarky
• mallarky
• mullarkey

Translations

References

Further reading

• malarkey (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “malarkey, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• Michael Quinion (26 August 2006) , “Malarkey”, in World Wide Words

Anagrams

• yarmalke, yarmelka