He waited until the place had become absolutely silent and expectant, then he delivered his deadliest shot; delivered it with ice-cold seriousness and deliberation, with a significant emphasis upon the closing words: he said he believed that the reward offered for the lost knife was humbug and bunkum , and that its owner would know where to find it whenever he should have occasion TO ASSASSINATE SOMEBODY.

philanthropic bunkum . Take it as a rule that nothing pays on a small scale.

"It sounds all right, but it's bunkum all the same.

Mr Campbell said: "It shows the Northern Powerhouse is bunkum ."

Government's been useless." Mr Campbell said: "It shows the Northern Powerhouse is bunkum ."

A strange character who knew Buffalo Bill personally, and who rode, shot and roped with Hoot Gibson, over the boundless prairies of the Wild West." Sounds like a lot of bunkum to me, but I love your column.

If you recall, they tried some disinformation to say some governors are not working with the party, but we knew it was all by bunkum . Every governor will work with the party and every governor is working with the party.

There is also another Latin/English saying, de mortuis nil nisi bunkum , or of the dead nothing but nonsense.

Gareth may have a tendency to slip into what I like to call "business bunkum " (in real life I use a different word starting with "b" that I am not allowed to use in The Journal), but he has clearly studied his job and found innovative ways to get the most of his team.

Bailie McLellan dismissed the remarks as " bunkum " and as there was no seconder for Bailie Barker's move to delay the rise until after the war, the proposal was carried.