Meanings
- AustraliaUScolloquialeuphemisticuncountableBullshit; nonsense.
I know'd it was all bullcorn – what they said!
1942, Marguerite Steedman, But You'll Be Back, Houghton Mifflin, page 1912 more examples
MODERATOR: Just tell me this. Now what do you fellows usually do? RESPONSE: We sit around B&P just talking and bullcorn all day.
1967 June, The prediction of dropout behavior among urban negro boys, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, page 180You heard every word. And believed it. That’s the dangerous part of that Bible reading and Sunday school bullcorn. Some fool might actually believe that stuff.
1980, Lawrence Swaim, The Killing, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 172
Origin
Variant of earlier bullshit, bull con. Attested from the 20th century. By surface analysis, bull + corn.
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