malarkey

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Of unknown origin; the word was popularized by the Irish-American cartoonist Thomas Aloysius (“Tad”) Dorgan (1877–1929), who started using it in cartoons on March 9, 1922. Maybe from Irish mallachtóireacht or Greek μαλακίες (malakíes)

1. Nonsense; rubbish.

   “I decided it was a bunch of malarkey and stopped reading about halfway through.”

   “Malachy—You said it—I wouldn't trust a lawyer no further than I could throw a case of Scotch.”