bunkum
Meaning of bunkum
noun
- nonsense.
they talk a lot of bunkum about their products
mid 19th century (originally buncombe ): named after Buncombe County in North Carolina, mentioned in an inconsequential speech made by its congressman solely to please his constituents ( c. 1820).
Information about bunkum
- It is a name.
- The plural form of bunkum is: bunkums.
- Languages in which bunkum is used:
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Hyphenation of bunkum
bunkum
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- bunkum is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
bunkum synonyms
Meaning bunk:
bunk, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash
Meaning spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense:
Meaning senseless talk or writing; nonsense:
Meaning unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense:
Meaning absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas:
Meaning talk which aims to charm, flatter, or persuade (often considered typical of Irish people):
Meaning long-winded talk with no real substance:
Meaning absurd, nonsensical, or worthless talk or ideas:
Meaning foolish or deceptive talk; nonsense:
Meaning nonsense; rubbish:
tripe, bosh, tommyrot, crapola
Meaning nonsense:
drivel, piffle, poppycock, phooey, hooey, codswallop, flapdoodle
Meaning language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of technical terms:
Meaning the area on the outer surface of a ship's hull where the bottom curves to meet the vertical sides:
Meaning an uncastrated male bovine animal:
Meaning cleansing lotion for a person's eye:
Meaning meaningless talk; nonsense:
Meaning trivial or foolish speech or writing; nonsense:
Meaning a thin stream of liquid; a trickle:
Meaning a person whose job is mending shoes:
Meaning a male bird, especially of a domestic fowl:
Meaning rubbish; nonsense:
Meaning a kind of soft woven fabric, typically made of wool or cotton and slightly milled and raised:
Meaning lengthy but vague or trivial talk or writing:
Meaning foolish talk; nonsense:
Meaning worthless or meaningless material or ideas; rubbish:
Meaning talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense:
Meaning used as a familiar term of address, chiefly in Liverpool:
Meaning rubbish, nonsense:
Meaning a puree of stewed apples, typically sweetened:
Meaning a large marine fish with a small barbel on the chin:
Meaning ham that has been cured or smoked like bacon:
Meaning a kind of firm or hard sweet which softens when sucked or chewed, made by boiling together sugar and butter, often with other ingredients or flavourings added:
Meaning faeces:
Meaning stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense:
Meaning something of extremely poor quality:
Meaning the testicles:
Meaning testicles:
Meaning coarse dust:
Words that rhyme with bunkum
clankum, crankum, trankum, Dinkum, clinkum, crinkum, dinkum, trinkum
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