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Guff   /gəf/   Listen
Guff

noun
1.
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements).  Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, hogwash, rot.






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"Guff" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jove, I'd rather be in with the out and out grafters—the regulars that make no bones of being in politics for the spoils. There's slimy hypocrisy over our crowd that revolts me. Not a particle of sincerity or conviction. Nothing but high moral guff." ...
— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips

... of the time, he simply gives out with the old guff that phony crystal-ball gazers have been giving out for centuries. Even when he gets a real flash, he piles on a lot of intuitive extrapolation. And the farther he gets from that central flash, the less reliable ...
— Fifty Per Cent Prophet • Gordon Randall Garrett

... claim, above all things, honest dealing, and for this reason the tricky politicians who "put it over" in the pre-war days will not have so easy a time. "Guff" will not be well received. The leaders on the battle-field have been men who could look death in the face without flinching, so the political leaders at home must be men of heroism, who will travel ...
— Three Times and Out • Nellie L. McClung



Words linked to "Guff" :   bullshit, horseshit, garbage, bunk, buncombe, bunkum, bull, rot, dogshit, crap, hogwash, shit, Irish bull, drivel



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