how to pronounce baloney

/bəˈloʊniː/

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baloney is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of baloney in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… i like baloney so i just became known by …”

meanings of baloney

noun:

Nonsense.
A type of sausage; bologna.

baloney frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word baloney occurs in english on average 0.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics baloney can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that baloney can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;