- a variation of bunkum.
buncombe
Americannoun
noun
Vocabulary lists containing buncombe
Example Sentences
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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
When I note how few Catholics are engaged in honestly tilling the honest soil, and how many Catholics are engaged in the liquor traffic, I cannot talk buncombe to anybody.
From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey
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