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Examples of bunkum
bunkum
This is all absolute bunkum, balderdash, tommyrot and hosgwash though isn't it?
From the guardian.co.uk
Until, that is, she set out to prove once and for all that homeopathy was bunkum.
From the newscientist.com
Bunkum, in turn, comes from Buncombe, the name of a county in North Carolina.
From the newsfeed.time.com
Finally, scientific leaders have a responsibility to expose the bunkum.
From the newscientist.com
It's all bunkum, really, as is Kelley's bunker, cave, or what have you.
From the guardian.co.uk
Given a surfeit of green PR bunkum, it is not easy to know whether they mean what they say.
From the economist.com
To suggest that I did not follow the regulations is complete bunkum.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I've tried to interpret your piece of bunkum three times and still find it hard to understand.
From the expressandstar.com
But they both agree that a recent Free Exchangecolumn about China's investment spending is bunkum.
From the economist.com
- Bunk: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense (countable); any bombastic political posturing or an oratorical display not accompanied by conviction; speechmaking designed for show or public applause
- Insincere talk; claptrap; humbug (alteration of Buncombe, a county in the U.S., in North Carolina; from it's Congressional representative's phrase, 'talking for Buncombe').
