bunkum
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Or in his own words - spat out in a Yorkshire growl - "bunkum and balderdash".
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2023
But in reality, some of what we think we know is bunkum and myth, quite often spread by the artist himself, who was famous for hiding behind a smoke screen of partial-truths and outright fibs.
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2018
Almost no records survived, though, so the history of the Pony Express is littered with impostors, inaccuracies, and plain bunkum.
From National Geographic • Jun. 23, 2018
But this mercantilist logic has been known to be bunkum for centuries.
From Economist • Mar. 8, 2018
The old fellow grumbled excessively when I told him to throw them overboard, and then somewhat annoyed me by saying that all the talk about them being unsafe was bunkum.
From John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous Fish 1901 by Becke, Louis
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