guff
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
guff
- (informal, uncountable) Nonsensical talk or thinking.
- (informal, uncountable) Superfluous information.
- (informal, uncountable) Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
- (slang, countable) A fart; act of breaking wind.
- (nonsensical talk or thinking) balls, bull, bulldust, bullshit, crap, nonsense, rubbish, tripe
- (insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks) brass neck, cheek, impudence, insolence, lip
- French: foutaises
- German: Quatsch, Stuss, Nonsens, Schmarren (Southern Germany), Quark, Käse, Kappes (Rhineland), Unsinn, Blödsinn, Stuss, Mumpitz
- Spanish: paparruchas, chorradas, pendejadas, tontería, boludez (Argentina), bobada (Spain), huevada (Chile)
guff (guffs, present participle guffing; past and past participle guffed)
- (slang) To fart.
- (slang) To mislead.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 14:
- "Let me see if I get you. You can't bear to help convict Ashe of murder because you doubt if he's guilty, so you're scooting. Right?"
- […] "That's close enough," Wolfe said.
- "Not close enough for me. If you expect me to […] invite a stiff fine for running out on a subpoena […] , don't try to guff me. Say we doubt if Ashe is guilty, but we think he may get tagged because we know Mandelbaum wouldn't go to trial without a good case. Say also our bank account needs a shot in the arm, which is true. So we decide to see if we can […] "
- 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 14:
- (break wind) See also Thesaurus:flatulate
- (mislead) To bullshit
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