guff
English
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]guff (countable and uncountable, plural guffs)
- (informal, uncountable) Nonsensical talk or thinking.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:
- “… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. […] If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes ; love of the people, and that sort of guff.”
- (informal, uncountable) Superfluous information.
- (informal, uncountable) Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
- (slang, countable) A fart; act of breaking wind.
- (slang, countable) A Bad smell
Synonyms
[edit]- (nonsensical talk or thinking): balls, bull, bulldust, bullshit, crap, nonsense, rubbish, tripe
- (insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks): brass neck, cheek, impudence, insolence, lip
Translations
[edit]nonsensical talk or thinking
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Verb
[edit]guff (third-person singular simple present guffs, present participle guffing, simple past and past participle guffed)
- (slang) To fart.
- (slang) To mislead.
- 1955 October, Rex Stout, “The Next Witness”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, →ISBN, 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 […] "
Synonyms
[edit]- (break wind): See also Thesaurus:flatulate
- (mislead): To bullshit