buncombe – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
buncombe
n.
nonsense; speech-making intended for the mass media
Buncombe
buncombe
Noun
1. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
(synonym) bunk, bunkum, guff, rot, hogwash
(hypernym) drivel, garbage
(hyponym) bullshit, bull, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, dogshit
Buncombe
(n.)
Alt. of Bunkum
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
buncombe
Synonyms and related words:
Washingtonese, adulation, balls, baloney, big talk, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, blandishment, blarney, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cajolement, cajolery, claptrap, compliment, crap, eyewash, fair words, fancy talk, fawning, federalese, fine talk, fish story, flam, flapdoodle, flattery, flimflam, gammon, gas, gobbledygook, grease, guff, gup, highfalutin, highfaluting, hogwash, hoke, hokum, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, incense, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, official jargon, officialese, oil, palaver, piffle, political doubletalk, poppycock, praise, pretty lies, pussyfooting, rot, scat, shit, soap, soft soap, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, tall story, tall talk, tommyrot, tripe, wheedling, wind,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
