bunkum
noun

- insincere or foolish talk

Merriam-Webster

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ORIGIN

Buncombe County is the origin of the word "bunkum," or "bunk." Apparently Felix Walker, the representative from Buncombe County, started it in the US Congress by making a long and boring speech while he was on the House floor, many people thought he was talking nonsense.

Henry Ford helped to popularize this meaning of the word bunk with his famous quote "All history is bunk."

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SYNONYMS

applesauce, balderdash, baloney, beans, bilge, blah, blah-blah, blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle

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Thanks to Helga for suggesting today's word