bunkum

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That was bunkum, as I demonstrated in a letter reacting to one particularly caustic review.

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  • Gordon Brown's terror claims for ID cards are 'bunkum' says GCHQ expert —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Red lets you know I think this rumour is bunkum, but it is still one being spread about and could do with stamping on. —  Comic Book Resources
  • The reality is that the skills and education sector in the UK is overflowing with bunkum, irrelevances, waste and socialism. —  Telegraph Blogs
  • Of couse this is all complete unbiblical bunkum, but it keeps people in line - making spiritual abuse and elitism and inability to think properly for oneself among this set rife. —  British Blogs
  • I think Barack is full of bunkum, and I believe it was an intentional insult which (at least for me) joyfully proves that Palin is officially rattling Obama's cage. —  THE RIGHT SCALE
 

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  1. After Buncombe, a county of western North Carolina, from a remark made around 1820 by its congressman, who felt obligated to give a dull speech "for Buncombe”.
 

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/ˈbungkum/
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