Usually means: Nonsense, foolish talk or ideas.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word bunkum:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. bunkum: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bunkum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bunkum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bunkum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bunkum: Wordnik
  6. bunkum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bunkum: Wiktionary
  8. bunkum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bunkum (buncombe): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bunkum: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bunkum, bunkum: Dictionary.com
  12. Bunkum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Bunkum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bunkum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bunkum: Rhymezone
  16. Bunkum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Bunkum: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. bunkum: Free Dictionary
  19. bunkum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bunkum: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. bunkum: Vocabulary.com
  22. Bunkum: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bunkum: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bunkum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bunkum: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bunkum, bunkum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bunkum: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bunkum)

noun:  (slang, countable) Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense.
noun:  (politics) Bombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public applause.

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