globaloney
noun/ˌɡləʊ.bəˈləʊ.niː/UK/ˌɡloʊ.bəˈloʊ.ni/CA/ˌɡləʉ.bəˈləʉ.niː/
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.
Definitions
Absurd or nonsensical ideas or talk on global issues.
- 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”
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No curated loop yet for globaloney. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA