bunkum

Meaning of bunkum

noun
  1. 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.
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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:

nonsense

Meaning senseless talk or writing; nonsense:

balderdash

Meaning unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense:

gibberish

Meaning absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas:

claptrap

Meaning talk which aims to charm, flatter, or persuade (often considered typical of Irish people):

blarney

Meaning long-winded talk with no real substance:

blather, blether

Meaning absurd, nonsensical, or worthless talk or ideas:

rubbish

Meaning foolish or deceptive talk; nonsense:

baloney

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:

gobbledygook

Meaning the area on the outer surface of a ship's hull where the bottom curves to meet the vertical sides:

bilge

Meaning an uncastrated male bovine animal:

bull

Meaning cleansing lotion for a person's eye:

eyewash

Meaning meaningless talk; nonsense:

malarkey

Meaning trivial or foolish speech or writing; nonsense:

twaddle

Meaning a thin stream of liquid; a trickle:

dribble

Meaning a person whose job is mending shoes:

cobblers

Meaning a male bird, especially of a domestic fowl:

cock

Meaning rubbish; nonsense:

tosh

Meaning a kind of soft woven fabric, typically made of wool or cotton and slightly milled and raised:

flannel

Meaning lengthy but vague or trivial talk or writing:

waffle

Meaning foolish talk; nonsense:

havers

Meaning worthless or meaningless material or ideas; rubbish:

garbage

Meaning talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense:

blathers

Meaning used as a familiar term of address, chiefly in Liverpool:

wack

Meaning rubbish, nonsense:

bushwa

Meaning a puree of stewed apples, typically sweetened:

applesauce

Meaning a large marine fish with a small barbel on the chin:

cod

Meaning ham that has been cured or smoked like bacon:

gammon

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:

toffee

Meaning faeces:

shit

Meaning stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense:

bullshit

Meaning something of extremely poor quality:

crap

Meaning the testicles:

bollocks

Meaning testicles:

balls

Meaning coarse dust:

bulldust

Words that rhyme with bunkum

clankum, crankum, trankum, Dinkum, clinkum, crinkum, dinkum, trinkum

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