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单词 bunkum
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bunkum or (esp US) buncombe /bungˈkəm/, also bunk /bungk/

noun (old inf)
  1. Bombastic speechmaking intended for the newspapers rather than to persuade the audience
  2. Humbug, claptrap
ORIGIN: From Buncombe, a county in North Carolina, whose representative is said to have gone on talking in Congress, explaining apologetically that he was ‘only talking for Buncombe’
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