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/ˈhuː.i/ · noun
(slang) Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s)..
I heard his speech. It sounded like a whole lot of hooey to me.
Frankly, I cannot imagine that the global political community cares very much how we spell Keelung or Jilong here. Hooey! How Taiwan spells Dunhua or Tunhwa Road does nothing to its national identity, which is and will remain proud and independent. Let us not load what should be practical linguistic matters with such political baggage.
For many doctors, meditation resides in the realm of New Age hooey—okay for Indian yogis and students of Eastern religion, but not suitable for scientific study.
Sheldon Cooper: I did, but I think I've kind of outgrown Star Trek. You know, stock characters, ludicrous plots, beam me up. What a load of hooey.
Dingo: Haha! Sounds like you're scared of ghosts. You know there's no such thing, right?! / Yonny: Well, actually, science has yet to DISprove the existence of ghosts. / Dingo: What? Yon, you're into all this ghost hooey? Really?!
“Jaws 2, 3 and 4, if I had made them, would still have failed,” Spielberg told me, “because of the improbability of a shark that large reoccurring thrice. The audience will accept so much until it becomes hooey.”
Use hooey when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hooey means (slang) Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s)..
Common synonyms include stuff, poppycock, stuff and nonsense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I heard his speech. It sounded like a whole lot of hooey to me.
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