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bunkum
/ ˈʌŋə /
noun
- empty talk; nonsense
- empty or insincere speechmaking by a politician to please voters or gain publicity
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bunkum1
An Americansim dating back to 1815–20; after a speech in the16th Congress (1819–21), by F. Walker, who said he was bound to speak for Buncombe (a county in the district in North Carolina that he represented)
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bunkum1
C19: after Buncombe , a county in North Carolina, alluded to in an inane speech by its Congressional representative Felix Walker (about 1820)
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Instead, increasing numbers of Americans have a media diet that is mostly a bunch of lies, conspiracy theories, irrelevant diatribes and other such bunkum that right-wing propagandists use to deceive people.
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"To suggest that we can't have effective scrutiny because of the size of the Senedd is a load of bunkum - look at the organ donation law, the smoking ban and plastic bags."
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Or in his own words - spat out in a Yorkshire growl - "bunkum and balderdash".
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I highly doubt Trump believed the bunkum he was peddling.
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While we support the role of local prosecutors in pursuing criminal cases, Schmitt’s excuse is bunkum.
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