Synonyms for bunkum
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Noun
1. Hogwash — senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense
hogwash, hokum, guff, balderdash, piffle, poppycock informal, baloney US AU, malarkey informal UK US IE, non-sense, humbug, rubbish UK, gobbledygook informal US, gobbledegook UK, blather, tripe UK, gibberish, rot, prattle, bosh, eyewash, bull, trash US, blah
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Definitions
- n. 1
Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense.
Related words
- Word family
- bunk
Forms
- Plural
- bunkums → hogwashes, hokums, guffs, poppycocks…
Example sentences
- hogwash I think that's a lot of hogwash.
- guff And don't give me any guff about it.
- grandstanding When you're done grandstanding, we have work to do.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| bunkum | steady | |
| hogwash | steady | |
| guff | rising | |
| hokum | steady | |
| balderdash | steady | |
| grandstanding | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- rot1
- 4 letters
- bull1, blah1, bosh1, guff1
- 5 letters
- trash1, tripe1, hokum2
- 6 letters
- humbug2, piffle
- 7 letters
- rubbish2, baloney3, hogwash2, blather2, prattle2, eyewash
- 8 letters
- malarkey3
- 9 letters
- gibberish3, poppycock3
- 10 letters
- balderdash3
- 12 letters
- gobbledygook4, gobbledegook
- 13 letters
- grandstanding3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hokum2 = 2 syllables).