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bullshit
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bullshit has 1 sense
- bullshit(n = noun.communication) bull, crap, dogshit, horseshit, irish bull, shit - obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull" is a kind of buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot
Derived form verb bullshit1
Verb bullshit has 1 sense
- bullshit(v = verb.communication) bull, fake, talk through one's hat - speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it" is one way to affect, dissemble, feign, pretend, sham
Derived form noun bullshit1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something
CIDE DICTIONARY
bullshit, n.
a ludicrously false statement. [WordNet 1.5]
bullshit, v.
to talk through one's hat. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bullshit, n. & v. coarse sl.
--n.
1 (often as int.) nonsense, rubbish.
2 trivial or insincere talk or writing.
--v.intr. (-shitted, -shitting) talk nonsense; bluff.
--n.
1 (often as int.) nonsense, rubbish.
2 trivial or insincere talk or writing.
--v.intr. (-shitted, -shitting) talk nonsense; bluff.
Derivative
bullshitter n.
Etymology
BULL(3) + SHIT
THESAURUS
bullshit
babble, balderdash, balls, baloney, big talk, bilge, blabber, blague, blah, blah-blah, blather, bop, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fancy talk, fine talk, fish story, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gabble, gammon, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, guff, gup, highfalutin, highfaluting, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, jabber, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, prate, prattle, rattle, rot, scat, shit, talk nonsense, tall story, tall talk, tommyrot, tripe, twaddle, twattle, vapor, waffle, wind
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