What's the difference between baloney and slang?

Baloney


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Female columnists have not been kind to the group in retrospect; Caitlin Moran basically blamed "Girl Power" for the loss of interest in feminism, while Grace Dent went further by saying that "any student in 2012 who regurgitates this Spice Girls-helped-feminism baloney in a dissertation should have the whole thing shredded and be made to wear a dunce cone in graduation pics".
  • (2) Sapin, in a French twist on Johnson’s “baloney” jibe, said: “There are four freedoms and they cannot be separated.
  • (3) This is pure baloney: the bottom line is that all the major technology companies outside of China are American.
  • (4) Sometimes it occupies the high ground and sometimes it is camped so far down-market, amid celebrity trivia and Big Brother baloney, as to be almost out of sight.
  • (5) Farage describes the Hitler Youth song allegation as “baloney”.
  • (6) Farage said any suggestion of singing Hitler youth songs was "complete baloney", but admitted: "Of course I said some ridiculous things, not necessarily racist things."
  • (7) An interview with the author, Jessica Porter, ran in a British broadsheet on Monday and was as full of baloney as the diet itself is full of wholegrains, which, Porter claims Gillian McKeith-style, "literally have intelligence" – a claim that begs the snark, "Well, comparatively, perhaps."
  • (8) Hinting that he would like to take on the EFDD role, Nuttall said: “If the opportunity became available, of course, as leader of Ukip, I would like to do it, but it would only be done with agreement of Nigel.” Talk of a coup was “complete baloney”, he said.
  • (9) In the spin-room after the debate, Romney's spokesman Eric Ferhnstrom responded to the "pious baloney" line with a sly reference to the embarrassing disclosure last year that Gingrich has a $500,000 account with Tiffany's, presumably having lavished jewellery on his wife Callista.
  • (10) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich , out for revenge after being on the receiving end of a $4m (£2.6m) advertising battering from Romney in Iowa, did not hold back, accusing him of lying, being unelectable and, in a phrase likely to be remembered long after the campaign is over, of talking "pious baloney".
  • (11) You don’t want to be in that kind of situation, so you gotta be quiet about it, so you don’t go down that route.” While shackled and interrogated over the next three days, police fed Terry only twice, he said, with baloney sandwiches and juice.
  • (12) Baloney!” Cakmakci is the president of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 951 .
  • (13) Johnson, a leading Brexit advocate, told Sky News on Thursday that the EU’s position that there was an automatic trade-off between access to the single market and free movement was “complete baloney”.
  • (14) And George young has taken the bait: "Gary Naylor may be looking for a rise and I'm happy to give it to him - his comment about Ronaldo is utter baloney.
  • (15) John Cakmakci’s response to that argument is simple:“Baloney!
  • (16) Quell is a damaged second-world-war navy vet; groggy on paintstripper liquor, reeling from a broken heart, who falls under the spell of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the baloney-preaching leader of a Scientology-style cult.

Slang


Definition:

  • () imp. of Sling. Slung.
  • (n.) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
  • (n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
  • (n.) Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.
  • (v. t.) To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
  • () of Sling

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moreover, are schoolchildren thoughtlessly taunting each other with slang such as: "That's just straight"?
  • (2) Chicago police say the number 300 is street slang for Black Disciple gang.
  • (3) Downing Street, reluctant to become involved in a slanging match , offered no response to the announcement last night.
  • (4) (You need to know that "dog" is pejorative slang in America for an ill-favoured woman).
  • (5) Ferdinand directed a jibe at a Twitter follower containing the word ’sket’, which is understood to be a slang term taken to mean a promiscuous girl or woman.
  • (6) As a portrait of modern society, it is startlingly astute – a scene with two schoolgirls arguing at a bus stop is uncanny in its depiction of south London slang, and speech mannerisms, and all the more notable because this is so rarely done accurately and with empathy.
  • (7) Her videos have been "accessorised with black dancers" and she uses US street slang like "rachet" (ghetto-diva) in her lyrics.
  • (8) It was recommended that more attempts should be made to subdivide measures of social deviancy by means of slang as there is some evidence of possible further differentiation of subcultural types by means of slang.
  • (9) It was a piece of rag on which was written a message describing a "TOS", jailhouse slang for "terminate on sight".
  • (10) But it emerged afterwards he was simply using snowboarding slang, meaning to "go big".
  • (11) It was the first time in my life I'd been around guys talking in slang and patois – stuff that had been passed down – and I was fascinated.
  • (12) In my role as a journalist working for TÊTU , the biggest French gay-oriented magazine, I used to think French society was mature enough to face such a debate without resorting to slanging matches.
  • (13) In Alain's work, the mixture of graceful, sometimes slightly quaint French, Congolese rhythm and Parisian street slang is very complex, but it is a complexity achieved by him as a writer.
  • (14) According to one reader, who for the sake of his career shall remain nameless, ecstasy tablets on Merseyside at the time owed their nickname to a piece of rhyming slang derived from the former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett.
  • (15) All the classic ingredients of tabloid fare are there: vast wealth, broken promises, honour, shame, "krysha" – Russian for "roof" but a slang term meaning "protection" – and a few chateaux, yachts and flamboyant women thrown in too.
  • (16) Richard McLaren receives ‘deluge’ of requests after Wada doping report Read more “I don’t want to get into a slanging match with the IOC about the way they’ve handled it.
  • (17) It turned into a slanging match in which the Iranians came to the assistance of the Russians.
  • (18) Indeed, the recent dustup about supposedly fixed parliamentary elections was essentially a slanging-match between the Blairite pressure group Progress (largely funded by Lord Sainsbury, and founded by people close to such über-New Labour types as Peter Mandelson), and the trade union Unite, whose leader Len McCluskey has recently been heard bemoaning the power held by "Oxbridge Blairites".
  • (19) Jungle don mature” [the jungle has matured] goes the Nigerian slang meaning: “the game is on.” It is a phrase on the lips of more than one Nigerian political commentator and aptly describes the tension as Africa’s most populous nation gears up for presidential elections just eight weeks away.
  • (20) Conrad also took Kimball to task for his lack of understanding of much of the slang Tsarnaev used in his tweets.