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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: probably imitative Date: 1888 1. nonsense, humbug 2. verbal abuse <doesn't take any guff>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. sl. empty talk; nonsense. Etymology: 19th c., orig. = 'puff': imit.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that what someone has said or written is guff, you think that it is nonsense. (INFORMAL) [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

babble, babblement, balderdash, baloney, bavardage, bibble-babble, bilge, blab, blabber, blah, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap, clatter, crap, flapdoodle, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, gossip, gup, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, idle talk, jabber, lip, malarkey, mere talk, moonshine, mouth, natter, nonsense talk, palaver, piffle, poppycock, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, rot, sass, sauce, scat, shit, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, tommyrot, trash, tripe, twaddle, twattle, wind, yak, yakkety-yak