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BUNCOMBE, or BUNKUM (from Buncombe county, North Carolina, United States)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 797 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BRI-BUN
BUNCOMBE, or BUNKUM (from Buncombe county, North Carolina, United States) , a
term
  used for insincere political action or speaking to gain support or the favour of a
constituency
 , and so any humbug or clap-
trap
 . The phrase " to talk for (or to)
Buncombe
  " arose in 1820, during the debate on the Missouri Compromise in
Congress
 ; the member for the
district
  containing
Buncombe
  county confessed that his
long
  and much interrupted speech was only made because his electors expected it, and that he was " speaking for Buncombe."


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