Hope Dictionary
buncombe | (บัง'คัม) n. คำพูดที่ไร้สาระ |
bunk | (n) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements), Syn. bunkum, buncombe, rot, hogwash, guff |
Bunkum | All that flourish about right of search was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ “The phrase originated near the close of the debate on the famous ‘Missouri Question, ' in the 16th Congress. It was then used by Felix Walker -- a naïve old mountaineer, who resided at Waynesville, in Haywood, the most western country of North Carolina, near the border of the adjacent county of |
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