What is another word for bunkum?
Pronunciation:
[ bˈʌŋkəm], [ bˈʌŋkəm], [ b_ˈʌ_ŋ_k_ə_m]
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Synonyms for Bunkum:
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- poppycock,
- tomfoolery,
- rigmarole,
- knowledge,
- twaddle,
- claptrap,
- balderdash,
- trash,
- blather,
- idiocy.
- bunk.
Other synonyms:
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- bilge,
- piffle,
- baloney,
- applesauce,
- malarkey.
- illegitimate child,
- hole,
- engorge,
- chattering,
- bed,
- savour,
- neat,
- verbalise,
- sibilation,
- insaneness,
- swell,
- prance,
- check,
- hog,
- hightail it,
- bunkum,
- friend,
- grandiose,
- fuss,
- patois,
- good,
- clear,
- toy,
- splash,
- whirligig,
- jargoon,
- falsify,
- lug,
- binge,
- nifty,
- nonsensical,
- beset,
- decently,
- situation,
- yack,
- know,
- prate,
- pull,
- burble,
- goldbrick,
- dick,
- swill down,
- cheesy,
- click,
- tiptop,
- arse,
- snort,
- diddlysquat,
- molder,
- crank,
- elevation,
- go past,
- superlative,
- top of the inning,
- crude,
- devil,
- redress,
- hesitate,
- ravingly,
- corn liquor,
- phoney,
- phrasing,
- subprogram,
- apprehend,
- prick up,
- fulfill,
- mud,
- political boss,
- nothingness,
- blow up,
- conform to,
- nose,
- cover,
- pig it,
- splendid,
- aright,
- chin-wag,
- slobber,
- pant,
- groovy,
- arrest,
- ballock,
- acme,
- tops,
- shortness of breath,
- thread,
- bite,
- mess up,
- infuriate,
- tomentum,
- gravel,
- idle words,
- speak,
- dish the dirt,
- tip,
- dumpsite,
- good deal,
- maunder,
- overstep,
- coaxing,
- pile,
- inconvenience,
- rabies,
- hair,
- whiz,
- puff out,
- goad,
- trouble oneself,
- suit,
- inconvenience oneself,
- plague,
- grass,
- ricochet,
- proper,
- fraudulence,
- nip,
- cock up,
- confabulate,
- anoint,
- gas pedal,
- place,
- lecture,
- vertigo,
- strait,
- slabber,
- flavor,
- kudos,
- botheration,
- wharf,
- mongrel,
- scoop,
- bootleg,
- correct,
- cacography,
- gabble,
- decline,
- salubrious,
- primed,
- sibilate,
- kindling,
- plenty,
- flock,
- turgidness,
- gormandize,
- smell,
- floor,
- mess hall,
- let the cat out of the bag,
- weave,
- farting,
- stool,
- guggle,
- force,
- transcend,
- sizeable,
- gabfest,
- muddle,
- hedge,
- sycophantic,
- laugh,
- wholly,
- chin wagging,
- powerful,
- pain,
- lunacy,
- upside,
- sting,
- mindlessness,
- phony,
- chintzy,
- cry out,
- diddlyshit,
- earthenware jar,
- cook,
- first-class,
- watchword,
- punk rock,
- thorn,
- osculation,
- admirer,
- incommode,
- attic,
- jabbering,
- batch,
- washcloth,
- swash,
- fizzle,
- breathlessness,
- paladin,
- party boss,
- bonce,
- stain,
- fix,
- nut case,
- rat,
- skirt,
- blabber,
- fantabulous,
- keen,
- bogus,
- prizewinning,
- wrap,
- pigswill,
- white,
- malarky,
- mouth,
- waver,
- raven,
- exceed,
- malicious gossip,
- stern,
- tear apart,
- fib,
- motortruck,
- have sex,
- bilgewater,
- dung,
- gibe,
- pouf,
- ornateness,
- make love,
- bum,
- max,
- hoist,
- rightfield,
- heave,
- candy kiss,
- hustle,
- pretension,
- hirer,
- wheedle,
- inveigle,
- en,
- well-grounded,
- take a shit,
- bureaucratism,
- crown,
- title-holder,
- hydrophobia,
- inconsideration,
- heap,
- mother fucker,
- sleep together,
- crowing,
- noesis,
- waste-yard,
- methedrine,
- correctly,
- pretence,
- bebop,
- fruitcake,
- comforter,
- slickness,
- ninny,
- smatter,
- unwiseness,
- agree,
- curve,
- story,
- rebound,
- jocularity,
- droppings,
- moor,
- lampblack,
- fetich,
- frill,
- inconsiderateness,
- evade,
- jambon,
- thrive,
- moon,
- peck,
- top side,
- thwack,
- deck,
- overstatement,
- twist,
- scandal,
- ceremonial,
- pinnacle,
- sweet-talk,
- salivate,
- chivy,
- unthoughtfulness,
- breaking wind,
- twine,
- chicken feed,
- goon,
- wizard,
- cart,
- shout out,
- crackpot,
- incision,
- sludge,
- slosh around,
- hell dust,
- clobber,
- ice,
- air current,
- annoyance,
- hump,
- rallying cry,
- tinker,
- do it,
- kettle of fish,
- atomic number 29,
- tang,
- congratulations,
- fly high,
- call,
- confidence trick,
- comfortably,
- betise,
- put out,
- feature,
- right field,
- diddley,
- meth,
- position,
- booster,
- intelligent,
- champ,
- powderpuff,
- eye-lotion,
- goodly,
- fulfil,
- degeneracy,
- reek,
- tool,
- freak,
- razz,
- guttle,
- entirely,
- gossipmonger,
- smacking,
- moulder,
- lubricating oil,
- diacetylmorphine,
- radioactive decay,
- choke up,
- upper side,
- bragging,
- gunk,
- substantially,
- legal,
- pinch,
- tingle,
- pain in the neck,
- hero,
- embrocate,
- guck,
- properly,
- reasoned,
- fly the coop,
- ace,
- dilapidate,
- grunter,
- ottoman,
- face cloth,
- fill,
- lip service,
- recklessness,
- rhodomontade,
- chafe,
- red cent,
- banana tree,
- collar,
- not bad,
- pigwash,
- swing music,
- auditory sensation,
- satiate,
- harry,
- egg,
- orchis,
- dandy,
- squeeze,
- empty words,
- cense,
- pouffe,
- hood,
- con game,
- coerce,
- hand truck,
- washrag,
- bully,
- moorage,
- chaffer,
- hassock,
- spot,
- gormandise,
- nettle,
- cognition,
- trouble,
- tidy,
- indulgence,
- dent,
- vector decomposition,
- virtuoso,
- grime,
- smashing,
- all,
- harangue,
- holler,
- hoity-toity,
- solid,
- noodle,
- crow,
- oil color,
- boom,
- rooster,
- rave,
- swing,
- spikelet,
- tinker's damn,
- nab,
- strong-armer,
- coldcock,
- spine,
- put-on,
- pecker,
- put off,
- defend,
- food waste,
- vacuity,
- boo,
- shabu,
- make,
- squealer,
- samson,
- unanimous,
- arsehole,
- easy lay,
- dissembling,
- slit,
- voice,
- foolhardiness,
- post,
- bang,
- effectual,
- slaver,
- confidential information,
- tout,
- bollock,
- capriciousness,
- pricker,
- whap,
- thunder,
- feigning,
- ripping,
- carbon black,
- spate,
- take to the woods,
- pretending,
- be intimate,
- braggadocio,
- glass,
- altogether,
- scraps,
- love,
- accommodate,
- jam,
- sheer,
- whimsy,
- tarradiddle,
- lift,
- ceremonial occasion,
- thrust,
- methamphetamine hydrochloride,
- haul,
- mussiness,
- bash,
- gourmandize,
- roll in the hay,
- meridian,
- cavalry,
- messiness,
- tweed,
- green soap,
- jaw,
- slip,
- ripe,
- hook,
- profound,
- peachy,
- farrow,
- jack,
- mightily,
- overeat,
- talk through one's hat,
- heedlessness,
- fanfare,
- arbitrariness,
- splosh,
- patch,
- crude oil,
- reverberate,
- rock oil,
- go,
- utter,
- illegitimate,
- largeness,
- burst,
- overindulge,
- goodish,
- pan,
- fetish,
- raspberry,
- get to,
- knob,
- choice of words,
- visit,
- outcry,
- liquid ecstasy,
- outfit,
- slap-up,
- super,
- blur,
- whoreson,
- have it away,
- infliction,
- sapidity,
- gasoline,
- mint,
- by-blow,
- chalk,
- blusterous,
- unscathed,
- sticker,
- tamper,
- spill the beans,
- formality,
- rabbit on,
- chitchat,
- vocalize,
- ramification,
- crummy,
- devour,
- playfulness,
- hint,
- gook,
- ripple,
- tinker's dam,
- corking,
- swagger,
- snog,
- whimsey,
- steer,
- nincompoop,
- scene,
- muss,
- peach,
- doodle,
- run away,
- conniption,
- slob,
- natural gas,
- a-one,
- superstar,
- fart,
- noggin,
- mighty,
- goo,
- razzing,
- cajole,
- inunct,
- yell,
- tally,
- cant,
- fake,
- teetotum,
- puffiness,
- give away,
- chief,
- subroutine,
- pain in the ass,
- knock down,
- reasonable,
- tinny,
- goop,
- maven,
- tidy sum,
- fighter,
- la-di-da,
- rage,
- irritate,
- shucks,
- disoblige,
- right wing,
- wangle,
- have a go at it,
- recoil,
- material,
- claver,
- simulation,
- gimcrackery,
- flop,
- quite a little,
- saltation,
- yak,
- hoodlum,
- rubbish dump,
- splashiness,
- four flush,
- petrol,
- considerably,
- resile,
- tail,
- pointlessness,
- foolery,
- sensation,
- unharmed,
- tough,
- chew the fat,
- trickery,
- ostentatiousness,
- osculate,
- supporter,
- whimsicality,
- rumourmonger,
- puff of air,
- provoke,
- accelerator pedal,
- completely,
- sing,
- mummery,
- gymnastic horse,
- mavin,
- gorge,
- duck,
- jibe,
- parry,
- knight,
- sleep with,
- disintegration,
- scuffle,
- scat singing,
- confab,
- harass,
- damn,
- gabardine,
- fountainhead,
- hatful,
- raft,
- escape,
- disintegrate,
- sidestep,
- deal,
- sleazy,
- pick up,
- diddly-squat,
- breakdown,
- dogfight,
- fathom,
- dupery,
- right on,
- vernacular,
- public lecture,
- gaseous state,
- equip,
- caper,
- dope,
- misrepresent,
- voodoo,
- fraud,
- stamp,
- inflation,
- office,
- bull's eye,
- diddle,
- first-rate,
- rightfulness,
- drag,
- turncock,
- fossil oil,
- gag,
- take a crap,
- pig out,
- idle talk,
- dizziness,
- tell on,
- snitch,
- corruption,
- billet,
- toadyish,
- rumormonger,
- respectable,
- strut,
- intimately,
- mend,
- wander,
- run,
- bunco,
- decompose,
- waste,
- bolt,
- have it off,
- take a hop,
- mass,
- mooring,
- winding,
- chivvy,
- chin wag,
- spill,
- make-believe,
- lie with,
- wad,
- shoot a line,
- paroxysm,
- match,
- turgidity,
- exclaim,
- slang,
- screwball,
- pricking,
- small talk,
- mishegoss,
- englut,
- chevvy,
- audio,
- justly,
- passel,
- pot,
- sock,
- chat,
- pig bed,
- copper color,
- circumvent,
- the skinny,
- annoy,
- ball,
- flavour,
- dribble,
- wish-wash,
- sizable,
- juju,
- peak,
- gun,
- slosh,
- snake oil,
- grandiosity,
- mickle,
- savor,
- doodly-squat,
- slops,
- son of a bitch,
- dome,
- routine,
- unreason,
- manure,
- prank,
- big top,
- sport,
- hollo,
- betray,
- edible bean,
- testis,
- fit out,
- ungraded,
- get at,
- rag,
- after part,
- beat,
- slew,
- block,
- ditch,
- tussle,
- antic,
- tinder,
- hifalutin,
- exasperate,
- battle cry,
- manipulate,
- blustery,
- deoxyephedrine,
- decomposition reaction,
- eff,
- twinge,
- sizz,
- discommode,
- hefty,
- heavy,
- wiz,
- accelerator,
- stack,
- decent,
- collyrium,
- squall,
- putz,
- have intercourse,
- soot,
- whiff,
- bubble,
- spring,
- unhurt,
- shout,
- star,
- love child,
- filth,
- anele,
- current of air,
- scent,
- cheap,
- depravity,
- hissing,
- adept,
- knock off,
- quarter,
- stopcock,
- plunge,
- rectify,
- jactation,
- pressure,
- overgorge,
- pickle,
- slop,
- junk,
- jounce,
- chin-wagging,
- fatuousness,
- con,
- vocalise,
- diction,
- squat,
- tantrum,
- great deal,
- diddly-shit,
- mouth off,
- bird,
- oil colour,
- ham,
- imbecility,
- falderol,
- quilt,
- talking,
- pompousness,
- lallation,
- scratch,
- glom,
- refuse,
- meet,
- touchwood,
- draw,
- scarf out,
- bootlicking,
- bunko,
- slush around,
- slime,
- slapdash,
- bean plant,
- height,
- play,
- testicle,
- operation,
- compensate,
- methamphetamine,
- tale,
- veracious,
- select,
- sawbuck,
- siss,
- scum,
- amentia,
- flatus,
- throttle,
- wasteyard,
- right hand,
- speech sound,
- buss,
- scream,
- pretext,
- gurgle,
- chit chat,
- vociferation,
- bouncing,
- garbage dump,
- sloven,
- complicatedness,
- magnification,
- chevy,
- circus tent,
- relish,
- function,
- diddly,
- sashay,
- screw,
- folderal,
- head for the hills,
- thurify,
- elude,
- wind up,
- foreman,
- wave,
- puffed,
- lightheadedness,
- advantageously,
- confidence game,
- buck,
- farce,
- nose drops,
- clack,
- satisfy,
- sobbing,
- nark,
- gimcrack,
- glut,
- wreathe,
- cu,
- fuck,
- blab,
- soil,
- violin,
- totally,
- underprice,
- pass,
- comment,
- sight,
- merriment,
- yakety-yak,
- spinning top,
- gaffer,
- huff,
- roll,
- blazon out,
- congratulate,
- bunko game,
- toughie,
- crumble,
- emboss,
- chemical decomposition reaction,
- jape,
- spunk,
- craziness,
- causerie,
- hammer,
- thieve,
- self-praise,
- observance,
- newsmonger,
- junkie,
- vegetable oil,
- great,
- correspond,
- make out,
- talk of the town,
- shrink from,
- scrap,
- moonlight,
- chuff,
- obsequious,
- blow,
- smooch,
- top off,
- petroleum,
- meander,
- lyssa,
- bluff out,
- shove,
- spout,
- whizz,
- summit,
- good for you,
- rite,
- hoax,
- lingo,
- babbling,
- bounciness,
- wakeless,
- honcho,
- bull through,
- trick,
- empty talk,
- nail,
- low-down,
- shirk,
- crack,
- lead,
- absurdness,
- puff up,
- shop,
- phone,
- rough-and-tumble,
- protagonist,
- ostentation,
- vex,
- fury,
- stag,
- verbalize,
- skulduggery,
- leap,
- wording,
- tattle,
- monkey,
- topnotch,
- bold,
- wind instrument,
- crest,
- lather,
- mountain,
- argot,
- levelheaded,
- mire,
- guise,
- set,
- blab out,
- process,
- defecate,
- call out,
- ingurgitate,
- taste,
- thug,
- brandish,
- phraseology,
- tortuousness,
- shoot the breeze,
- old,
- break away,
- genius,
- addict,
- get it on,
- expand,
- taurus,
- convulsion,
- muck up,
- natter,
- denounce,
- one,
- knottiness,
- gossiper,
- ooze,
- scrabble,
- punk rocker,
- coax,
- turn tail,
- level-headed,
- gasolene,
- slovenly person,
- babble out,
- horse cavalry,
- bonk,
- round top,
- get laid,
- lam,
- bound,
- rile,
- unit,
- weep,
- molest,
- comfort,
- prosper,
- cracking,
- wellspring,
- skullduggery,
- whop,
- right-hand,
- trash dump,
- gibber,
- shaft,
- chin music,
- war cry,
- lot,
- easily,
- sawhorse,
- junky,
- take in water,
- ruffle,
- line-shooting,
- scarper,
- grievous bodily harm,
- leaping,
- scuttlebutt,
- dodge,
- smut,
- flatulency,
- grunge,
- hotshot,
- muckle,
- tie up,
- gasp,
- whoosh,
- ca-ca.
- bluster,
- dickhead,
- first-string,
- dump,
- prickle,
- prattling,
- jiggery-pokery,
- teratology,
- dirt,
- smack,
- cackle,
- officialese,
- procedure,
- nonsense,
- Fanfaronade,
- adulation,
- cajolery,
- healthy,
- fish story,
- humbug,
- punctilio,
- bravado,
- gibberish,
- moonshine,
- ceremony,
- top-notch,
- chit-chat,
- motherfucker,
- sweet nothings,
- boloney,
- exaggeration,
- magniloquence,
- GUP,
- rigamarole,
- cocksucker,
- stupidity,
- heroin,
- verbiage,
- blustering,
- gas,
- Venditation,
- boasting,
- rodomontade,
- bruiser,
- fit,
- nerts,
- falderal,
- cop,
- rhetoric,
- gobbledygook,
- darn,
- wind,
- cock,
- tosh,
- gab,
- hoke,
- right,
- Vapouring,
- apple sauce,
- hokum,
- gobbledegook,
- fudge,
- muck,
- wheedling,
- prattle,
- Blague,
- waffle,
- taffy,
- praise,
- gossip,
- hocus-pocus,
- bunk bull,
- well,
- bushwa,
- crake,
- meshugaas,
- horse,
- copper,
- formalities,
- tall story,
- tittle-tattle,
- horsefeathers,
- excellent,
- flimflam,
- truck,
- sob,
- brag,
- Braggardism,
- fine talk,
- sycophancy,
- incense,
- papal bull,
- Humbuggery,
- flourish,
- Double Dutch,
- scat,
- swill,
- feed bunk,
- ritual,
- jargon,
- cry,
- decay,
- blah,
- blah-blah,
- pomposity,
- pretentiousness,
- bilge water,
- sound,
- placebo,
- grandiloquence,
- stuff,
- blue-ribbon,
- pretensions,
- poop,
- hassle,
- Fiddledeedee,
- cobblers,
- balls,
- mumbo jumbo,
- highfaluting,
- berth,
- putrefaction,
- jabberwocky,
- tall talk,
- raving,
- pussyfooting,
- ceremoniousness,
- bang-up,
- bunk bed,
- soap,
- highfalutin,
- punk,
- blither,
- heroics,
- boast,
- tripe,
- pig,
- slap,
- complication,
- flatulence,
- hale,
- puff,
- Jactancy,
- vaunt,
- turd,
- decomposition,
- strapper,
- trumpery,
- blatherskite,
- grease,
- jabber,
- gammon,
- fiddle-faddle,
- rant,
- shite,
- double-talk,
- eyewash,
- bop,
- havers,
- gasconade,
- champion,
- blarney,
- bastard,
- ranting,
- fiddlesticks,
- bureaucracy,
- fuzz,
- oil,
- asshole,
- Gurry,
- vaporing,
- big talk,
- blether,
- fair words,
- fawning,
- bluff,
- kiss,
- crock,
- honeyed words,
- palaver,
- bother,
- mess,
- horse feathers,
- flattery,
- hoot,
- blandishment,
- hiss,
- top,
- wholesome,
- Motions,
- Flam,
- compliment,
- prick,
- Cajolement,
- scag,
- bounce,
- pretense,
- fustian,
- chatter,
- sweet words,
- flummery,
- Rose water,
- tommy-rot,
- bosh,
- hyperbole,
- sane,
- nonsensicality,
- nut,
- jactitation,
- Puffery,
- mishegaas,
- crapola,
- fancy talk,
- talk,
- whole,
- boss,
- butter,
- folderol,
- codswallop.
How to use "Bunkum" in context?
Bunkum, a word which is often used to describe something that is phony, fake, or not true, has its roots in the Dutch language. The word "bunk" means "a low and wide couch on which one sleeps" and "koom" means "a cushion placed on the floor for a sleeping person". The word "bunkum" was first recorded in 1662 and originally referred to a type of cloth that was used to decorate furniture.
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