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guff
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Word definitions for guff in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
guff \guff\ n. A ludicrously false statment. [WordNet sense 1] Syn: bullshit, bull, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, bunk, bunkum, buncombe, rot, hogwash, dogshit. Insolent or disrespectful talk; as, don't give me any of your guff, young lady.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All this may seem nothing more than the embarrassing guff that goes with too much global summitry. ▪ Even so, most other restaurant workers probably take more guff from customers, Dansky says. ▪ I am constantly astonished by ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunk , bunkum , buncombe , rot , hogwash ]
Usage examples of guff.
Somewhere under the wet and woolly sociological guff which he ladled so unstintingly over the Wilkinsons and me, there had to be a hard-core card-carrying fully-indoctrinated communist.
There's no high-tone guff here about how SF should claim royal descent from Lucian, or Cyrano de Bergerac, or Mary Shelley.
There were, of course, screenfuls of patriotic guff about the legendary wisdom and foresight of the Founding Father, George Washington Jefferson the 1st and the sacrificial valour of the Minutemen and Foragers.
Lee protested in vain that her daughter would not be caught dead reading such guff.
Belay that guff before I snatch yer pettiskirts and snap yer smithyriddles!
A wade through another couple of florid paragraphs encouraging heart-thumping indolence finally revealed the core of the guff to be advice on buying shares in syndicated racehorses.