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Dec 24, 2020 · Walsh would use malarkey a number of times in the first half of the 1920s. From a 17 February 1924 column: Some attempt has been made to account for the defeat of the United States hockey team by the Canadians in the Olympic games by declaring the result was the fruit of team work rather than individual brilliancy.
Where Did Biden Get His "Bunch of Malarkey"? In last night's vice-presidential debate, there was one clear winner: the word malarkey. Joe Biden used it not once but twice against Paul Ryan.
1920s. The earliest known use of the noun malarkey is in the 1920s. OED's earliest evidence for malarkey is from 1923, in Defiance (Ohio) Crescent-News. malarkey is of unknown origin. See etymology.
A lot of people, apparently including Biden, believe "malarkey" to come from Ireland. But its first-known usage is in the United States in the early 1920s. It's not a widely used word in Ireland or Great Britain, even today.
- Kristen Hall-Geisler
Jan 8, 2017 · So Walsh was using the standard "malarkey=nonsense" meaning at the same time that Dorgan was using "malachy" in a similar way. It seems unlikely that Walsh got his from Dorgan, so it seems more likely that the term existed before Dorgan AND Walsh.
- Brian Cronin
- Senior Staff Writer
Aug 26, 2006 · What we do know is that it began to appear in the US in the early 1920s in various spellings, such as malaky, malachy, and mullarkey. Its first known user was the cartoonist T A Dorgan, in 1922, but it only began to appear widely at the end of the decade.
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Oct 12, 2012 · According to Oxford Dictionaries, malarkey is "meaningless talk; nonsense," it came into use in the 1920s and its specific origin is unknown. There is an Irish name — Mullarkey. But a...
