Synonyms for hokum
All synonyms
Noun
1. Bunkum — (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate
hogwash, non-sense, piffle, baloney US AU, malarkey informal UK US IE, guff, poppycock informal, humbug, tripe UK, bunk, blather, rubbish UK, meaninglessness, jazz, trash US, blah, bosh, bull, blah-blah, eyewash, rot, clap-trap
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Definitions
- n. 1
(An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.
Related words
- Word family
- hokey
- Other spellings
- hocum
Forms
- Plural
- hokums → hogwashes, baloneys, malarkeys, guffs…
Example sentences
- hogwash I think that's a lot of hogwash.
- guff And don't give me any guff about it.
By length
- 3 letters
- rot1
- 4 letters
- jazz1, bull1, blah1, bunk1, bosh1, guff1
- 5 letters
- trash1, tripe1
- 6 letters
- humbug2, piffle
- 7 letters
- rubbish2, baloney3, hogwash2, blather2, eyewash
- 8 letters
- malarkey3
- 9 letters
- theatrics2, poppycock3
- 15 letters
- meaninglessness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (humbug2 = 2 syllables).