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Buncombe

noun
1.
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements).  Synonyms: bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot.






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"Buncombe" Quotes from Famous Books



... Warfare;' but he can't 'talk Indian'—that is very clear. The 'abrogynes' are not in the habit of making interminable speeches: they leave that to white members of Congress, who pump up a feeling in a day's speech 'for Buncombe.' Do you remember what HALLECK ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 - Volume 23, Number 6 • Various

... of the congregation. But to an intelligent worker such sermons sound like capitalistic propaganda, upon which he is constantly being fed by every labor-exploiting concern in the country, and quite naturally he tries to avoid getting an extra dose of the same kind of buncombe ...
— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks



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