8 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
noun empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
originOf unknown origin; the word was popularized by the Irish-American cartoonist Thomas Aloysius (“Tad”) Dorgan (1877–1929), who started using it in cartoons on March 9, 1922. Maybe from Irish mallachtóireacht or Greek μαλακίες (malakíes)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0