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bullshit coarse slang.|ˈbʊlʃɪt|
[f. bull n.1 + shit n.]
1. Rubbish, nonsense; = bull n.4 3.
c1915Wyndham Lewis Let. (1963) 66 Eliot has sent me Bullshit and the Ballad for Big Louise. They are excellent bits of scholarly ribaldry. 1928E. E. Cummings Enormous Room vii. 194 When we asked him once what he thought about the war, he replied, ‘I t'ink lotta bullsh—t.’ 1953G. Lamming In Castle of Skin vi. 135 Some say they had no time for all that bullshit. 1961R. Kee Refugee World xii. 130 ‘What do you think of the criticisms..?’ ‘Sheer bullshit, frankly.’ 1969P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 97, I swear to you, this is not bullshit or a screen memory, these are the very words these women use.
2. = bull n.4 4.
1930T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 Jan. (1938) 677, I would like to know (1) Guards or Fire Pickets? (2) Drill Parades? (3) Equipment..? When worn? (4) Bullshit generally? 1957R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy iv. 93 The world of special parades in the Services, of ‘blanco and bullshit’.
Hence as v. trans. and intr., to talk nonsense (to); = bull v.3; also, to bluff one's way through (something) by talking nonsense.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §151/6 Talk nonsense,..bull-shit. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxiv. 12 Wot are the books ov the bible? Name 'em, don't bullshit ME. 1967E. Ambler Dirty Story i. iii. 25 Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through. 1969P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 105 Please, let us not bullshit one another about ‘love’ and its duration.
Add: ˈbullshitter n., one who exaggerates or talks nonsense, esp. to bluff or impress.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 15 Bullsh, nonsense, empty chatter, bragging. Whence ‘bullsh-tter’: one given to bragging or empty talk. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §422/3 ‘Tall talker’,..bull fighter, bull-shitter, bull shooter. 1950C. MacInnes To Victors the Spoils i. 20 ‘Well..I'll see what I can do,’ he said, as we went out. ‘A nice old bullshitter,’ Walter told me. 1966H. Marriott Cariboo Cowboy i. 19, I had already had some experience with..blowhards and bullshitters as they are called in the Cariboo. 1970J. Lennon in J. Wenner Lennon Remembers (1972) 72 He is a bullshitter. But he made us credible with intellectuals. 1986C. Lassalle Breaking Rules 157 That bogus old bullshitter, Jung. |