guff
pronunciation
How to pronounce guff in British English:
UK [gʌf]
How to pronounce guff in American English:
US [ɡʌf]
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- Noun:
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
Word Origin
- guff (n.)
- "empty talk, nonsense," 1888, from earlier sense of "puff of air" (1825), of imitative origin.
Example
- 1. Modern headhunters spout as much guff as management consultants , but without the excuse .
- 2. Thus my first award in the 2010 management guff awards is a brand new category for daft new names for common nouns .
- 3. Forget the constitution and all that guff about a shining city on the hill ; the founding fathers did not have to face islamist jihadis .
- 4. Forget all the guff about persuading fat westerners to eat less ; spend more time trying to deal with infectious diseases in the developing world .
- 5. It was of course all guff . And what wasn 't guff was juche kim 's homemade half-baked political philosophy which promotes a unique korean self-reliance guided by a great leader .