different between mortadella vs baloney

English

Etymology

From Italian mortadella, from diminutive of Latin murtatum (“sausage seasoned with myrtle berries”), from myrtatum, from myrtus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (múrton).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

mortadella (plural mortadellas)

1. A smooth-textured Italian pork sausage with lumps of fat, flavoured with spices; eaten cold.

Synonyms

• baloney
• boloney
• Bologna sausage
• bologna

Translations

Finnish

Noun

mortadella

1. mortadella

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From a diminutive of Latin murtatum (“sausage seasoned with myrtle berries”), from myrtatum, from myrtus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (múrton).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mor.ta?d?l.la/
• Hyphenation: mor?ta?dèl?la

Noun

mortadella f (plural mortadelle)

1. mortadella

English

Etymology 1

Modification of bologna.

Alternative forms

• boloney
• bologna

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??l??ni/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??lo?ni/
• Rhymes: -??ni

Noun

baloney (countable and uncountable, plural baloneys)

1. A type of sausage; bologna.

Synonyms

• see bologna

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from the Polari slang word balonie. Alternatively, perhaps simply from bologna (“sausage”), possibly used as a minced oath for bullshit.

Alternative forms

• balonie (UK)
• boloney

Noun

baloney (uncountable)

1. (uncountable, chiefly US, slang) Nonsense.

   That's a bunch of baloney! I don't believe one word!

Usage notes

Sometimes used in the rhyme phony baloney.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:nonsense.

Derived terms

• no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
• globaloney

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Words from Variety

Anagrams

• Boylean, Lebonya