buncombe

[ buhng-kuhm ]

noun

1. a less common variant of bunkum.

buncombe

/ ˈbʌŋkəm /

noun

1. a variant spelling (esp US) of bunkum

Example Sentences

The penny Press, by way of doing honour to their new ruler, boldly fixed the numbers at 40,000—that was their bit of Buncombe.

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Mr. Houston is a gentleman, and the Buncombe property has been for ever so many hundreds of years in the family.

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They for the most part avoid buncombe, which would be difficult to translate into Acts of Parliament.

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Buncombe, more usually bunkum, is the name of a county in North Carolina.

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I was sorry afterwards that I had spoken of the majesty of the Assembly's wisdom, because it savoured of buncombe.

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