Synonyms for bunkum
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : buhng-kuh m |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʌŋ kəm |
Top 10 synonyms for bunkum Other synonyms for the word bunkum
- blather
- bombast
- bull
- bunkum
- claptrap
- crap
- drivel
- fatuity
- flapdoodle
- flightiness
- folly
- fun
- garbage
- giddiness
- hogwash
- hooey
- hot air
- imprudence
- inanity
- irrationality
- ja
- jazz
- jest
- jive
- joke
- ludicrousness
- madness
- mumbo jumbo
- palaver
- piffle
- poppycock
- prattle
- pretense
- ranting
- rashness
- ridiculousness
- rigmarole
- rot
- rubbish
- scrawl
- scribble
- senselessness
- silliness
- soft soap
- stuff and nonsense
- stupidity
- thoughtlessness
- tomfoolery
- tommyrot
- trash
- tripe
- twaddle
Définition of bunkum
Origin :- variant of Buncombe.
- As in rubbish : noun nonsense
- As in bull : noun nonsense
- As in crap : noun nonsense
- As in hooey : noun nonsense
- As in tommyrot : noun nonsense
- As in guff : noun nonsense
- That fifty dollars being put on for anybody else was bunkum.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- “All bunkum and wind,” said he, pitching them into a corner.
- Extract from : « Kilgorman » by Talbot Baines Reed
- It's for them that all these atrocities are invented—most of them bunkum.
- Extract from : « The Hero » by William Somerset Maugham
- I suppose you will say next that I hypnotised her—or some bunkum of that sort!
- Extract from : « The Seven Secrets » by William Le Queux
- Tall talk's his jewelry: he must have his dandification in bunkum.
- Extract from : « Beauchamp's Career, Complete » by George Meredith
- I regret, however, to have to write that this idea of self-sacrifice is really all bunkum.
- Extract from : « Egyptian Birds » by Charles Whymper
- Slavery speeches are all Bunkum; so are reform speeches, too.
- Extract from : « The Attache » by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- No, not they; they want Irish votes, that's all—it's Bunkum.
- Extract from : « The Attache » by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- It must not be supposed, however, that this was all bunkum to Mr. Spokesly.
- Extract from : « Command » by William McFee
- Then all that talk of yours about getting me out of danger was bunkum?
- Extract from : « Jacob's Ladder » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Antonyms for bunkum
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