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Meanings of buncombe in inglês
catalão
poca-soltada espanhol
disparate Synonyms
Examples for "bunk"
Examples for "bunk"
1
The next moment the boy heard Thede moving in the bunk above.
2
In the darkness, cylinder in hand, I crept softly from the bunk.
3
When Harold was in his bunk the little maid was brought in.
4
Long, frightening howls carried by the wind into our open bunk windows.
5
The man in the bunk in the lumbermen's camp is wild again.
1
In one place flowers rot and die; in another, bloom and live.
2
Spray 5 is the most important in reducing the amount of rot.
3
The leaves rot on the ground; the trees also, age after age.
4
They do not lie and rot in the sun and the mists.
5
They will rot in prison; that is all that they will do.
1
This guff was not published by the government or the housebuilding companies.
2
So far, the Party and Humanite are still sticking to their guff.
3
I'll have a whiskey & let them smother me in their guff.
4
A lot of guff is written in glorification of the often-dreadful 1960s.
5
Belay that guff before I snatch yer pettiskirts and snap yer smithyriddles!
1
They said they could not drink the tea; that it was hogwash.
2
Both Mary and Bill said this cabal thing of yours is hogwash.
3
I was run out of my job on this sort of hogwash.
4
He grabbed the edge of his seat and growled, That's hogwash, Wiley.
5
JM: The belief that things like match-fixing are new is hogwash.
1
The idea that Brazil just rocked up and played is romantic bunkum.
2
I wonder if there isn't a lot of bunkum in higher education?
3
Have you not head enough to see that that is all bunkum?
4
That may be bunkum, or it may be God's truth- Idon'tknow.
5
Tall talk's his jewelry: he must have his dandification in bunkum.
Usage of buncombe in inglês
1
And the speeches to the extent of about ninety per cent are pure buncombe.
2
But as for this theory that all wisdom resides in the people, it's buncombe.
3
England never signed, because Castlereagh thought the whole thing buncombe.
4
That is sheer buncombe carefully fostered by a very efficient corps of Japanese propagandists.
5
Webster did it supremely well; a smaller man would merely have made buncombe of it.
6
How many men are called great because they succeed in talking buncombe and selling rubbish!
7
This gave demagogues in the legislature, anxious to make a reputation in buncombe, a great chance.
8
I never have and never will resort to 'buncombe' for the purpose of securing my own advancement.
9
From their experiences with the electors they had good reason to believe that this buncombe would go down.
10
But in real life it's buncombe.
11
And, spite of these well-known facts, northern buncombe never tired of assailing "the rebel sympathies" of England!
12
It is all buncombe.
13
I'm taking care of you now, and I'll see that you soon get home and to Grays', too; that's all buncombe.
14
When he died he left a modest fortune made in spouting buncombe; and yet-The Professor held out a hand in appeal.
15
Tell me, McGraw-don'tlie to me-doyou feel the slightest desire to see me suffer, or is this-er-brotherly-love talk of yours plain buncombe?
16
It was the occasion of much political chat and buncombe, in which the Whig party and Jackson alike were, strangely enough, lauded to the skies.
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Translations for buncombe
espanhol
Buncombe through the time