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Bunkum is empty talk: nonsense, or words said to sound good rather than to tell the truth. People also say bunk, which is the short form with the same meaning. The word is informal and a bit old-fashioned; younger speakers more often say nonsense, rubbish, or that's a load of bunk. It still turns up when someone wants a colourful, slightly mocking word for a speech or a claim that is all show. Though actually, it started as a joke about : talk aimed at the people back home, not at anyone in the room. That flavour of “said for effect” never quite left it.
鬼扯；胡說八道（英文偏舊，現在更常說 bunk）
組成From Buncombe, a county in North Carolina, USA, named for Edward Buncombe. In 1820, Congressman Felix Walker gave a long, tiring speech just before a vote on whether Missouri would be a free or a slave state. He said he was speaking not to Congress but “to Buncombe” — to the people back home. Colleagues shouted him down. “Speaking for Buncombe” came to mean empty talk, and the spelling settled as bunkum.
同家族的字
- bunkthe short form people say now, with the same meaning
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bunkumnoun/ˈbʌŋkəm/
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datedslangSenseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense.
- […] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […]
- The part of that word to focus on is bunk, short for bunkum, which is what these types attack with vigor and all the obsessiveness of the bunkum spreaders themselves.
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datedgovernmentpoliticsBombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public applause.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。