bullshit
pronunciation
How to pronounce bullshit in British English:
UK [ˈbʊlʃɪt]
How to pronounce bullshit in American English:
US [ˈbʊlˌʃɪt]
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- Noun:
- obscene words for unacceptable behavior
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- Verb:
- talk through one's hat
Word Origin
- bullshit (n.)
- "eloquent and insincere rhetoric," 1915, American English slang; see bull (n.1) + shit (n.), probably because it smells. But bull in the sense of "trivial or false statements" (1914), which usually is associated with this, might be a continuation of Middle English bull "false talk, fraud" (see bull (n.3)).
- bullshit (v.)
- by 1942, from bullshit (n.). Related: Bullshitted; bullshitting.
Example
- 1. If a consumertalks bullshit on the ward , he goes over like a turd in a punch bowl .
- 2. Trust me - we wouldn 't put up with apple 's bullshit if there wasn 't a lot more money to be made than any other mobile platform .
- 3. Finally , exams demand clarity of thought and expression and penalise waffle and bullshit .
- 4. He invited us all to go out to this funky local restaurant owned by european expatriates , a wildly permissive place that never closes , he promised , where beer and bullshit are served at all hours .
- 5. He dismisses the music spawned by the track as " plagiarism " and " bullshit " , considering it another chapter in the plundering of african-american cultural patrimony .