bullshitn.
/ˈbʊlʃɪt/, U.S. /ˈbʊlˌʃɪt/ coarse slang.
1. Rubbish, nonsense; = bull n.4 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
?1915 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 66 Eliot has sent me Bullshit and the Ballad for Big Louise. They are excellent bits of scholarly ribaldry.
1928 E. E. Cummings Enormous Room vii. 194 When we asked him once what he thought about the war, he replied, ‘I t'ink lotta bullsh—t.’
1953 G. Lamming In Castle of my Skin vi. 135 Some say they had no time for all that bullshit.
1961 R. Kee Refugee World xii. 130 ‘What do you think of the criticisms..?’ ‘Sheer bullshit, frankly.’
1969 P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 97 I swear to you, this is not bullshit or a screen memory, these are the very words these women use.
2. = bull n.4 4.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > acting according to some standard, fashion, etc. > conformity to established rules > mere conventional observance
forma1672
eyewash1857
bullshit1930
bull1941
1930 T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 Jan. (1938) 677 I would like to know (1) Guards or Fire Pickets? (2) Drill Parades? (3) Equipment..? When worn? (4) Bullshit generally?
1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy iv. 93 The world of special parades in the Services, of ‘blanco and bullshit’.
Derivatives
bullshit v. transitive and intransitive, to talk nonsense (to); = bull v.3; also, to bluff one's way through (something) by talking nonsense.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > use language nonsensically [verb (intransitive)]
roya1450
to talk (or speak) at rovers1542
nonsense1822
squiddle1824
twaddle1825
fudge1834
buncomize1871
to be full of prunes1887
waffle1900
jive1928
bullshit1942
to talk out of one's arse1973
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > utter nonsensically [verb (transitive)]
rove1581
trifle1823
fudge1834
twaddle1837
crap1928
bullshit1942
waffle1957
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lie, tell lies [verb (intransitive)] > be evasive
varyc1430
revolt1577
sklent1581
equivocate1590
fluff1902
bullshit1942
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §151/6 Talk nonsense,..bull-shit.
1948 E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxiv. 8 Wot are the books ov the bible? Name 'em, don't bullshit ME.
1967 E. Ambler Dirty Story i. iii. 25 Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through.
1969 P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 105 Please, let us not bullshit one another about ‘love’ and its duration.
Draft additions 1993
ˈbullshitter n. one who exaggerates or talks nonsense, esp. to bluff or impress.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > one who indulges in
gabbler1624
mataeologian1653
mataeologue1716
twaddler1787
twaddle1802
piffler1885
bullshitter1941
waffler1959
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun] > one who exaggerates > in language
embroiderer16..
hyperbolist1661
longbowman1678
distender1831
bullshitter1941
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 15 Bullsh, nonsense, empty chatter, bragging. Whence ‘bullsh-tter’: one given to bragging or empty talk.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §422/3 ‘Tall talker’,..bull fighter, bull-shitter, bull shooter.
1950 C. MacInnes To Victors the Spoils i. 20 ‘Well..I'll see what I can do,’ he said, as we went out. ‘A nice old bullshitter,’ Walter told me.
1966 H. Marriott Cariboo Cowboy i. 19 I had already had some experience with..blowhards and bullshitters as they are called in the Cariboo.
1970 J. Lennon in J. Wenner Lennon Remembers (1972) 72 He is a bullshitter. But he made us credible with intellectuals.
1986 C. Lassalle Breaking Rules 157 That bogus old bullshitter, Jung.
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