buncombe

American

[buhng-kuhm] / ˈbʌŋ kəm /

noun

a less common variant of bunkum.

buncombe British

/ ˈbʌŋkəm /

noun

a variant spelling (esp US) of bunkum

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Indeed, with Washington today having become a carnival of buncombe so sublimely preposterous that even that great journalistic iconoclast H.L.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2018

What a grotesque debate, a travesty of rhetoric, a carnival of buncombe the likes of which even H.L.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2015

The 48 hours before this party were a flurry of rumors and numbers and buncombe.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2012

As usual the flood of newspaper buncombe about Mars and its inhabitants appears.

From Time Magazine Archive

To be sure, there is always the danger of affectation, and the concluding sentences of Mr. Yeats's dedicatory letter to "AE" are pretty close to buncombe.

From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy

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