Synonyms of the word buncombe


BUNCOMBEBUNK - BUNKUM - DRIVEL - GARBAGE - GUFF - HOGWASH - ROT

buncombe

  • n. (archaic) Alternative spelling of bunkum.

bunk

  • n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
  • n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  • n. (military) A cot.
  • n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  • n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • v. To occupy a bunk.
  • v. To provide a bunk.
  • n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  • adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
  • v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
  • v. (dated) To expel from a school.

bunkum

  • n. (slang) Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense (countable).
  • n. (Washington, DC) Bombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public…

drivel

  • n. senseless talk; nonsense.
  • n. saliva, drool.
  • n. (obsolete) A fool; an idiot.
  • n. (obsolete) A servant; a drudge.
  • v. To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
  • v. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly.
  • v. To be weak or foolish; to dote.

garbage

  • n. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
  • n. Food waste material of any kind.
  • n. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
  • n. A place or receptacle for waste material.
  • n. Nonsense; gibberish.
  • n. (often attributively) Something or someone worthless.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To eviscerate.

guff

  • n. (informal) Nonsensical talk or thinking.
  • n. (informal) Superfluous information.
  • n. (informal) Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
  • v. (slang) To break wind.
  • v. (slang) To mislead.

hogwash

  • n. (slang) foolish talk or writing; nonsense.
  • n. swill.

rot

  • v. (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
  • v. (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
  • v. (intransitive) To deteriorate in any way.
  • v. (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
  • v. (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber;…
  • n. The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
  • n. Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
  • n. Verbal nonsense.

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