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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bun•combe (bung′kəm),USA pronunciation n. - Governmentbunkum.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: buncombe /ˈbʌŋkəm/ n - a variant spelling (esp US) of bunkum
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bun•kum or bun•combe /ˈbʌŋkəm/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- insincere talk;
nonsense; claptrap; humbug.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bun•kum (bung′kəm),USA pronunciation n. - Governmentinsincere speechmaking by a politician intended merely to please local constituents.
- insincere talk;
claptrap; humbug. Also, buncombe. - after speech in 16th Congress, 1819–21, by French. Walker, who said he was bound to speak for Buncombe (north, northern.C. county in district he represented) American.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: bunkum, buncombe /ˈbʌŋkəm/ n - empty talk; nonsense
- chiefly US empty or insincere speechmaking by a politician to please voters or gain publicity
Etymology: 19th Century: after Buncombe, a county in North Carolina, alluded to in an inane speech by its Congressional representative Felix Walker (about 1820) |