Definition
bunkum
noun
- nonsense; foolish or insincere talk
Usage: informal; often used to dismiss or criticize empty rhetoric or false claims
Examples
- The politician's speech was pure bunkum designed to mislead voters.
- I don't believe that story—it's complete bunkum.
- She dismissed his excuses as bunkum and demanded the truth.
- The advertisement was full of bunkum about the product's miraculous effects.
- He called out the bunkum in the report and asked for real evidence.
- That's just bunkum; there's no scientific basis for those claims.