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guff
noun- foolish nonsense, usually spoken or sung US, 1888
From “guff” (empty talk), later usage informed by the sense of “a fart”, punning and adding a noxious element to HOT AIR - “Don’t take any guff from these swine,” I said as he slammed the phone down. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, p. 12, 1971
- All Ragga [music genre with violent and sexist lyrics] was the same kinda guff with a digital edge instead of using established dub plates. — John Robb, The Nineties, p. 180, 1999
- [H]e doesn’t believe in any of his religious kitschy crap and his guff about the strong-walled mansions of the dead[.] — James Hawes, Dead Long Enough, p. 83, 2000
- [A]ll that guff about a prisoner one phone call (usually to his lawyer) was just that – so much guff. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 97, 2002
- back-talk, verbal resistance US, 1879
- Just because I went to college don’t make me take any guff from a nit like you. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, p. 35, 1953
- You can tell the colonel your phone’s been out of order if he gives you any guff. — Jim Thompson, The Nothing Man, p. 202, 1954
- a fart UK, 1998
Probably from the sense “nonsense”, thus a play on HOT AIR- — An A–Z of Rude Health, 18 January 2002
- You blame a guff on a dog. — The FHM Little Book of Bloke, p. 27, June 2003
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