bunkum
Origin of bunkum
1- Rarely bun·combe .
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How to use bunkum in a sentence
The move will likely be cheered by public health advocates who have struggled to combat such harmful bunkum online during the devastating pandemic.
Instagram bans top anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over COVID falsehoods | Beth Mole | February 11, 2021 | Ars TechnicaA grain—requiring to be picked out with a pin and microscope—of truth, with a bushel of bunkum or cant.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.He became the voice of the British Empire, and the man who had always ridiculed Americans for bunkum oratory, out-screamed us all.
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon PhelpsBut I'm blowed if this bunkum don't make me inclined to turn Radical rat.
And I might have known all the time that it was so much bunkum, just a yarn to get out of my hands.
The Lady of North Star | Ottwell J. Binns
Their magic of the first kind is compounded of pure bunkum and fraud.
The Wolf Cub | Patrick Casey
British Dictionary definitions for bunkum
buncombe
/ (ˈbʌŋkəm) /
empty talk; nonsense
mainly US empty or insincere speechmaking by a politician to please voters or gain publicity
Origin of bunkum
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