globaloney
/ˌɡloʊ.bəˈloʊ.ni/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney”."
- "We must beware of any form of ‘globaloney’."
- "–an outlook characterised by one senior State Department official as “messianic globaloney”"
- "Stop supporting bums abroad. Stop all foreign aid, which is aid to banksters and their bonds and their export industries. Stop gloabaloney^([sic]), and let's solve our problems at home."
- "Wendell Willkie's One World (1942), the epitome of “globaloney”, had sold a four million copies."
- "The cheap labor threat is a common element of globaloney arguments today."
Etymology
Blend of global + baloney. Coined by American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist Clare Boothe Luce in 1943 to disparage the recommendation of then-Vice President Henry Agard Wallace that airlines of the world be given free access to US airports.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɡloʊ.bəˈloʊ.ni/
- British English: /ˌɡləʊ.bəˈləʊ.niː/
Usage
- American usage
- Uncountable