bunkum

a load of bunk

Nonsense or insincerity. Bunk is an abbreviation of the Americanism "bunkum," meaning insincere, empty talk, or disingenuous political talk meant merely to please a target audience. Primarily heard in US. The plumber said it would cost $800 to fix the toilet? What a load of bunk!
See also: bunk, load, of

a lot of bunk

Nonsense or insincerity. Bunk is an abbreviation of the Americanism "bunkum," meaning insincere, empty talk, or disingenuous political talk meant merely to please a target audience. Primarily heard in US. In my opinion, most of what a politician promises during a campaign is just a lot of bunk.
See also: bunk, lot, of

bunkum

Nonsense or foolishness. His explanation is total bunkum and doesn't answer the question at all.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bunkum

and buncombe (ˈbəŋkəm)
n. nonsense. That’s just plain bunkum! Your Honor, counselor’s airbrained buncombe is an insult to the court. I object!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a load of bunk
  • a lot of bunk
  • bunk
  • talk at cross purposes
  • talk to
  • talk to (one)
  • What's on your mind?
  • straight talk
  • talk about
  • talk about...
References in periodicals archive
O ran glanweithdra, ron i''n camu''n ol rhyw ganrif bob tro ron i''n agor drws y Byncar Bunkum.
Dyddiau difyr yn archwilio rhai o amgueddfeydd ac orielau Glasgow
As for the story that Joe lost a bout because the other boxer's dad was the ref - bunkum.
Letters
YOU MAY CONSIDER THE ANCIENT art of medical acupuncture to be bunkum, but now at least it's standardized bunkum.
Still no cure for cancer
"But the old wives' tale that it is too cold to snow is complete bunkum. It can snow at -40C if there is enough moisture in the air!"
-11 degrees .. and get ready for blizzards by end of the week
Although to some people this may seem like bunkum I personally do believe that you can get a very good idea of a person's character in this way and the thought of sitting down with a book filled with such quizzes was rather a pleasant one.
REVIEW: More Psychometric Testing
According to a Los Angeles Times report on Friday the State Department believes the White House's democratic-domino theory is bunkum and doubts that installing a new regime in Iraq will foster democracy in the Middle East.
Asian editorial excerpts
The bizarre act went ahead at the Spiegeltent at Edinburgh's Waverley Market, after giant Irish funnyman Martin Bigpig told Shane: "Hypnosis is bunkum."
Taking a stand on hypnosis
Since every force in the universe eventually begets a countervailing force, there seems to be a wonderful business opportunity here for some enterprising accounting firm to create a competing service called the "flapdoodle audit." This is a process whereby an accounting firm would determine to what extent the organization had fallen prey to an epidemic of hokum, bunkum, twaddle, tish-tosh, and horse-bleep.
Of ethics and flapdoodles
The majority believed this yarn and several lectures were given to reassure the men that it was all bunkum. Later we were to find out for ourselves that mustard-gas was the most deadly sort that was used during the course of the War.
MORNING SERIAL
It was bunkum, full of promises the Tories won't fulfil, stuffed with the Tories' ideology of cutting down the state sector and attacking the poorest people in this country (who were not to blame for the recession), and crammed with lots of pay-offs for their rich friends, alongside a few crumbs for the arts and road campaigners.
One party for fairer society; Views of the North
Tracey told me I was talking bunkum and was quite happy to be called feisty, thank you very much.
Monumental silliness; Let statues praise feats not gender
Actually, scratch that, I've just Googled it and it's all bunkum - back to the Lemsip then!
Spence MacDonald
Although the well-worn cliche of a two-and-a-half-miler being an ideal type for the National is nothing short of bunkum, history has shown us that horses with a similar profile to that of Calgary Bay can win.
Calgary Bay set to shine
The Lib-Dems claim that the application byWhitchurch High School (WHS) for foundation status is to introduce a selective admissions policy, to threaten the sustainability of other local high schools and the expansion of Welsh-medium schools in the area and to miss out on local authority investment.What a load of bunkum!
Local schools for local pupils; VIEWPOINTS