bologna

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large, finely ground cooked sausage, typically made from a mixture of meats and served in slices

   He made a sandwich with two slices of bologna and mustard.

2. 2
   noun

   informal and less common spelling of baloney, meaning nonsense

   Her excuse was complete bologna, and nobody believed it.

Short for bologna sausage, named after Bologna in northern Italy, a city long associated with mortadella and related sausages. The spelling baloney reflects the common American pronunciation and later developed the informal sense 'nonsense.'

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