bunkum ˈbəŋ-kəm noun
: nonsense, especially ludicrously false statements
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The word bunkum has appeared in two articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 1 in “Think You Know Andy Warhol? Here Are Five Truths That May Surprise” by Blake Gopnik:
There has probably never been an artist better known to the public than Andy Warhol. But in reality, some of what we think we know is bunkum and myth, quite often spread by the artist himself, who was famous for hiding behind a smoke screen of partial-truths and outright fibs …
