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Meanings of bunkum in English

Catalan
poca-soltada
Spanish
disparate

Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

poca-soltada
Usage of bunkum in English
1
The idea that Brazil just rocked up and played is romantic bunkum.
The Guardian
2
I wonder if there isn't a lot of bunkum in higher education?
Parnassus on Wheels
3
Have you not head enough to see that that is all bunkum?
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
4
That may be bunkum, or it may be God's truth- Idon'tknow.
The Red Redmaynes
5
Tall talk's his jewelry: he must have his dandification in bunkum.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1
6
Well, that sounds like a load of old bunkum, I thought to myself.
The Guardian
7
It's all bunkum, Godalming, all a pretty lie for the newspapers.
Anno Dracula
8
Her tears, her air of frankness, her tender memories: all bunkum!
The Teeth of the Tiger
9
Vladimir Nabokov would remind his students that simplicity is bunkum.
The Guardian
10
It was all bunkum-make-believe- tothink Icouldbe anything else.
The Dark House
11
The whole notion was mad-absolute bunkum- arefutationof the empirical laws that govern everything!
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
12
A mere tenant knows that it is bunkum when he says "Our Country."
Three Acres and Liberty
13
As I said a month ago, that's bunkum.
Radio NZ
14
And as man gets near the end of it, he sees just WHAT bunkum it is.
Australia Felix
15
To her the conventions behind which society shields itself, its shams and its bunkum, were sacred.
In the Roaring Fifties
16
If he did so, he could never come out with such absolute bunkum concerning her Tuam comments.
The Irish Times
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