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bullcorn

bullcorn noun: bullshit; nonsense.

Noun

bullcorn (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, US, colloquial, euphemistic) Bullshit; nonsense.
    • I know'd it was all bullcorn – what they said!1942, Marguerite Steedman, But You'll Be Back, Houghton Mifflin, page 191
    • MODERATOR: Just tell me this. Now what do you fellows usually do?
      RESPONSE: We sit around B&P just talking and bullcorn all day.1967 June, The prediction of dropout behavior among urban negro boys, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, page 180

Origin of bullcorn

Variant of earlier bullshit, bull con. Attested from the 20th century. By surface analysis, bull + corn.

Questions about bullcorn

What does bullcorn mean?
Bullcorn means bullshit; nonsense.
What part of speech is bullcorn?
Bullcorn is a noun.

Words near bullcorn in the dictionary

  1. bullboat
  2. bullboats
  3. bullbutter
  4. bullcook
  5. bullcooks
  6. bullcorn
  7. bullcrap
  8. bullcrapped
  9. bullcrapper
  10. bullcrappers
  11. bullcrapping

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