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buncombe

American  
[buhng-kuhm] / ˈbʌŋ kəm /

noun

  1. a less common variant of bunkum.


buncombe British  
/ ˈbʌŋkəm /

noun

  1. a variant spelling (esp US) of bunkum

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

It was a mere trumpet flourish compared to some buncombe spectaculars of the past.*

From Time Magazine Archive

But there were speeches to be made for buncombe, and they made the best of the seconds.

From The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories by Dunbar, Paul Laurence

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