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bunkums

bunkums is the plural of bunkum.

Meaning of bunkum

Noun

bunkum (countable and uncountable, plural bunkums)

  1. (countable, dated, slang) Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense.
    • […] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […]1925, Eden Phillpotts, Circé's Island: And The Girl & the Faun, page 122
  2. (dated) Bombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public applause.
    Synonyms:
    grandstanding

Questions about bunkums

What is bunkums the plural of?
Bunkums is the plural of bunkum.

Words near bunkums in the dictionary

  1. bunkside
  2. bunksides
  3. bunkspace
  4. bunkspaces
  5. bunkum
  6. bunkums
  7. bunky
  8. Bunkyō
  9. bunless
  10. bunlike
  11. bunn

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