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say it: muh-LAHR-kee
malarkey is a noun meaning "empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk". It is pronounced /məˈlɑɹki/ — muh-LAHR-kee. It carries one recorded sense.
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
“that's a lot of wind”
“don't give me any of that jazz”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for malarkey come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.