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malarkey's cousin, ackamarackus2024 Dec 3
A note on the etymology entry for malarkey reads: "Another slang term meaning much the same thing at about the same time in U.S. was ackamarackus (1934)."
That word's not in my regular dictionary. But there are lots of dictionaries online, so linked is a definition and some quotes of it in usage from Green's Dictionary of Slang (Jonathon Green is an Oxford-educated lexicographer). He says the word comes from pig latin (although I'm not sure how, exactly) and means "a fraudulent tale, a tall story, nonsense; usu. in phr. old ackamarackus."
A note on the etymology entry for malarkey reads: "Another slang term meaning much the same thing at about the same time in U.S. was ackamarackus (1934)."
That word's not in my regular dictionary. But there are lots of dictionaries online, so linked is a definition and some quotes of it in usage from Green's Dictionary of Slang (Jonathon Green is an Oxford-educated lexicographer). He says the word comes from pig latin (although I'm not sure how, exactly) and means "a fraudulent tale, a tall story, nonsense; usu. in phr. old ackamarackus."