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Definition of: buncombe
(bung′kəm) noun
1. Bombastic speechmaking or any specious utterance for political effect.
2. Humbug. Also spelled bunkum. [from Buncombe County, N.C., whose Congressman (1819–21) often insisted on making empty, unimportant speeches “for Buncombe”]
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