Explore Hooey through 5 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like stuff or poppycock. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Hooey in a sentence
Hooey meaning
Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s).
Synonyms of Hooey
Using Hooey
- The main meaning on this page is: Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s).
- Useful related words include: stuff, stuff and nonsense, poppycock, nonsense.
- In the example corpus, hooey often appears in combinations such as: of hooey.
Context around Hooey
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hooey
- In this selection, "hooey" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, supernatural, particularly, starts and philosophy stand out and add context to how "hooey" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include bunch of hooey and bunch of hooey promoted by. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hooey" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hooey
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
When the supernatural hooey starts in the disturbing feeling amps up. (11 words)
I think that's hooey, particularly with respect to domestic production which the IRA incentivizes. (15 words)
It is, or course, a hooey philosophy that doesn’t actually mean anything and nobody really relates to on a psychological level. (22 words)
Well, there’s yet more evidence out there that the hysteria about the chemical Bisphenol-A (more commonly called BPA) was just a bunch of hooey promoted by green activists who want BPA and many other useful and perfectly safe chemicals banned. (42 words)
They don’t care about how such behavior will cause a new spike in infections, because the president has enabled them to believe it is all a bunch of hooey. (30 words)
It is, or course, a hooey philosophy that doesn’t actually mean anything and nobody really relates to on a psychological level. (22 words)
Example sentences (5)
I think that's hooey, particularly with respect to domestic production which the IRA incentivizes.
When the supernatural hooey starts in the disturbing feeling amps up.
They don’t care about how such behavior will cause a new spike in infections, because the president has enabled them to believe it is all a bunch of hooey.
It is, or course, a hooey philosophy that doesn’t actually mean anything and nobody really relates to on a psychological level.
Well, there’s yet more evidence out there that the hysteria about the chemical Bisphenol-A (more commonly called BPA) was just a bunch of hooey promoted by green activists who want BPA and many other useful and perfectly safe chemicals banned.
Common combinations with hooey
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of hooey 2×