Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang Nonsense; baloney.
- n. Slang Insolent talk; back talk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An oaf or fool.
- n. Idle or foolish talk; stuff.
Wiktionary
- n. Nonsensical talk or thinking.
- n. superfluous information.
- n. Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
- v. To break wind.
- v. To mislead.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A ludicrously false statment.
- n. Insolent or disrespectful talk.
WordNet 3.0
- n. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
Etymologies
- Perhaps imitative.
Examples
“I got permission to do so years ago from my then PT, a former commando, who usually took no guff from the likes of me, but insisted that training when ill was ridiculous.”
“For Moon, it seems, has had quite enough guff from the Speech Warriors ™, and he wasted no time seizing his opportunity to be heard.”
“He pokes fun at the Citizen's Charter, yet the only ideas which enthuse him are some guff from the Duke of Edinburgh about the importance of team sports.”
“The author about whom I wrote at the beginning of this piece continues to get guff from the articles written years ago ...”
“And I never get any guff from the parents, want to know why? because the parents are never there.”
“Tornello has been called guff, humble, an old-fashioned dad.”
“The new game, which does away with the renaissance fair and 3D moniker guff and is instead simply dubbed Wolfenstein, is headed to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC platforms.”
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“I LOVE the fact Hillary Clinton is not taking any "guff" from anyone.”
“My take was that a child, growing up in that community, listening to that "guff" every Sunday, would literally be programmed with contempt for "whitey".”
“In saying that the settlements undermine efforts to achieve peace is stating the obvious, but Suki categorises this as "guff".”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘guff’.
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Talk Talk
Words for Talking
squawk, gab, chatter, chitchat, blab, prattle, blather, discuss, hector, plead, cajole, harangue and 189 more...
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plain hilarious
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 241 more...
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Expressions of disbelief or disagreement
bollocks, come off it, rubbish, as if, bullshit, guff, i don't believe it, are you mad, tosh, nonsense, garbage, bunkum and 51 more...
bilby Scots - stench, smell. Aug 2, 2008
yarb In parts of the UK, to fart. Or as a noun. May 14, 2008
mollusque Pronounced more like "goof" in Hebrew, and often transliterated as "guf". Feb 1, 2008
mikeropology It's also a term the Talmud uses to refer to the repository of all unborn souls. Literally, the word "guff" means "body."
Kinda ironic when you consider the two meanings.. (purity v. falsity) Feb 1, 2008