"hooey"

[Leanne Riding]

A common BC interior word popped into my head a few moments ago: "hooey"
always meaning "not true". Pronounced "hu-i" with the emphasis on the
first syllable. Someone might say, "that's a load of hooey". Or just
"Hooey!"

Any CJ origin to this word and do folks say this in the USA also?

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