guff
- empty or foolish talk; nonsense.
- insolent talk.
Origin of guff
Related Words for guff
hogwash, crap, rubbish, garbage, bunk, baloney, hooey, foolishness, drivel, poppycock, bull, bunkum, flapdoodleExamples from the Web for guff
Contemporary Examples of guff
(Branch) Rickey selected Jackie because he knew he could withstand the guff.
Is there a sassy but kindly Black female lawmaker who lives next door the quartet, speaking sense to men and not taking no guff?
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November 15, 2013
Historical Examples of guff
Was love really what it was cracked up to be, or had the novelists handed us guff?
The HarborErnest Poole
But there are things in it that are just guff, Henry, just guff.
Changing WindsSt. John G. Ervine
Pipe down that guff, you unlicked cub, or I'll crown you with a proof-bar!
Spacehounds of IPCEdward Elmer Smith
Let's face a few facts, Thorndyke, and stop tossing this guff.
Highways in HidingGeorge Oliver Smith
Fred Macklin interrupted, "Look, Dad, why are we bothering with all this guff?"
Highways in HidingGeorge Oliver Smith
guff
- slang ridiculous or insolent talk
Word Origin for guff
Word Origin and History for guff
"empty talk, nonsense," 1888, from earlier sense of "puff of air" (1825), of imitative origin.