buncombe

• “They were from all over the map -- "complete hooey" from _Minority Report_, "buncombe" from _The New Republic_, "as truthful as Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound" from an article on pedagogy in the _Sun_.”

  Asimov's Science Fiction

• “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 on Sunday ....”

  The Necessity of Atheism

• “I never have and never will resort to 'buncombe' for the purpose of securing my own advancement.”

  Forty-Six Years in the Army

• “It is the purest kind of buncombe for any man to say that democracy is the millenium, just as it is lunacy for the Bolshevist to say that to introduce his system would introduce the millenium.”

  Democracy or Bolshevism

• “What is the origin of the term "buncombe" as popularly used?”

  Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader

• “What a great deal of "buncombe" the American populace will bear!”

  Echoes of the Week

• “It must be remembered, however, that the Americans of both parties in the North are more in the habit of "speaking daggers" at each other than of using them; and that, perhaps, all this loud talking is but the bark of a dog that will not bite -- mere "buncombe," intended for present effect.”

  The Presidential Contest in America

• “Neither General Kearney nor Mason had much respect for this land of "buncombe," but assumed the true doctrine that”

  Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Complete

• “That's how "buncombe" came to mean annoying and disingenuous language”

  chicagotribune.com - News

• “buncombe" when I had his boys & others up for trespassing upon certain of the property — claimed much authority as”

  Letter from James B. Mason to R. W. Lassiter, September 3, 1873

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