Definitions for bunkum

bunkum bun·kum

Spelling: [buhng-kuh m]
IPA: /ˈbʌŋ kəm/

Bunkum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in bunkum (bkmnuu).

Definitions for bunkum

noun

  1. insincere speechmaking by a politician intended merely to please local constituents.
  2. insincere talk; claptrap; humbug.

Origin of bunkum

Americanism; after speech in 16th Congress, 1819-21, by F. Walker, who said he was bound to speak for Buncombe (N.C. county in district he represented)

Examples for bunkum

Slavery speeches are all bunkum; so are reform speeches, too.

Tall talk's his jewelry: he must have his dandification in bunkum.

“All bunkum and wind,” said he, pitching them into a corner.

It must not be supposed, however, that this was all bunkum to Mr. Spokesly.

I regret, however, to have to write that this idea of self-sacrifice is really all bunkum.

It's for them that all these atrocities are invented—most of them bunkum.

I suppose you will say next that I hypnotised her—or some bunkum of that sort!

No, not they; they want Irish votes, that's all—it's bunkum.

Then all that talk of yours about getting me out of danger was bunkum?

That fifty dollars being put on for anybody else was bunkum.

Word Value for bunkum
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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