bullshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlʃɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: From bull + shit. First use appears c. 1910.
Compare typologically Latin mūscerda (questionable).
Senses: examples: text: Oh, I get it! So it's not a pyramid, it's just pyramid-shaped. You know, like a Dorito, or an Angry Bird, or just a pile of bullshit.
ref: 2016 November 6, “Multilevel Marketing”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 29, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
synonyms: cowshit
hypernyms: manure
;
excrement
shit
coordinate_terms: goatshit
horseshit
pigshit
sheepshit
glosses: Feces produced by a bull.
examples: text: Don't pay any attention to him. He talks a lot of bullshit.
text: He wrote loads of bullshit in the science exam.
text: The Illusive Man: Shepard. You're making a habit of costing me more than time and money.
Shepard: I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you. I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC:
text: “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker,” Trump wrote in a missive on Truth Social. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.”
ref: 2025 July 16, Kevin Liptak and Sarah Ferris, “Trump lashes out at ‘weaklings’ who believe Epstein ‘bullsh*t’ amid building GOP pressure to release documents”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: BS
word: horseshit
word: absurdity
word: all my eye
word: all my eye and Betty Martin
word: applesauce
word: bafflegab
word: balderdash
word: balls
word: baloney
word: banana oil
word: Bandini
word: baragouin
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bilgewater
word: blah
word: blather
word: blatherskite
word: bobbins
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: BS
word: bull
word: bullcrap
word: bulldust
word: bull feathers
word: bullshit
word: bullspeak
word: bunk
word: bunkum
word: bushwah
word: clamjamfrey
word: claptrap
word: cobblers
word: codswallop
word: crap
word: crock
word: crock of shit
word: double Dutch
word: double talk
word: doublespeak
word: dribble
word: drivel
word: eyewash
word: fiddle-faddle
word: flapdoodle
word: flim-flam
word: flizz
word: flummery
word: folderol
word: foolishness
word: footle
word: framis
word: fuckery
word: fuckry
word: fudge
word: galimatias
word: garbage
word: garble
word: gibber
word: gibberish
word: gobbledygook
word: gossip
word: Greek
word: guff
word: gup
word: hoax
word: hocus-pocus
word: hogwash
word: hokum
word: hooey
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horse piss
word: horse puckey
word: horseshit
word: humbug
word: Irish bull
word: jabber
word: jargon
word: jibber-jabber
word: jimjam
word: jive
word: junk
word: lallation
word: macaroni
word: malarkey
word: manure
word: meaninglessness
word: moonshine
word: mumbo jumbo
word: nertz
word: nonsense
word: pie in the sky
word: piffle
word: pigswill
word: poppycock
word: prattle
word: put-on
word: rhubarb
word: rhubarb rhubarb
word: rigmarole
word: rot
word: rubbish
word: ruse
word: santorum
word: shit
word: shite
word: skimble-skamble
word: squit
word: stuff
word: stuff and nonsense
word: tommy-rot
word: tosh
word: tush
word: trash
word: tripe
word: twaddle
word: wass
word: whiff-whaff
word: word salad
qualifier: usual sense
glosses: Statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener.
examples: text: That's total bullshit! I called your office and they said that you didn't come in!
text: Fucking load of bullshit! You smashed his skull and dropped the F-bomb at him, and now you're claiming that he assaulted you?!
synonyms: word: BS
word: horseshit
word: falsedom
word: falsehood
word: falsity
word: falseness
word: terminological inexactitude
word: untruth
word: disinformation
word: fabrication
word: fib
word: leasing
word: lie
word: misinformation
word: misstatement
word: yed
word: alternative fact
word: anti-fact
word: invention
word: bluff
word: bollocks
word: bullshit
word: canard
word: cap
word: chin
word: clanker
word: contradiction
word: cram
word: disinformation
word: fabrication
word: falsehood
word: falsification
word: fib
word: flam
word: goof
word: hoax
word: hummer
word: inveracity
word: inverity
word: jive
word: lie
word: mendacity
word: misinformation
word: mistruth
word: nonsense
word: nontruth
word: pork pie
word: porker
word: porky
word: prevarication
word: red flag
word: rubbish
word: story
word: swack-up
word: tall tale
word: terminological inexactitude
word: untruism
word: untruth
word: whopper
word: wisker
word: yanker
word: yed
glosses: Statements that are transparently or offensively false.
synonyms: BS
horseshit
glosses: Statements that are intentionally misleading, whether true or not.
examples: text: Respect for the truth and a concern for the truth are among the foundations for civilization. I was for a long time disturbed by the lack of respect for the truth that I observed... bullshit is one of the deformities of these values.
ref: 2005, Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit:
text: Illusive Man: Shepard, you're making a habit of costing me more than time and money.
Shepard: I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you. I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: After Collector Base: Final Battle:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: word: nonsense
word: BS
word: horseshit
word: absurdity
word: all my eye
word: all my eye and Betty Martin
word: applesauce
word: bafflegab
word: balderdash
word: balls
word: baloney
word: banana oil
word: Bandini
word: baragouin
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bilgewater
word: blah
word: blather
word: blatherskite
word: bobbins
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: BS
word: bull
word: bullcrap
word: bulldust
word: bull feathers
word: bullshit
word: bullspeak
word: bunk
word: bunkum
word: bushwah
word: clamjamfrey
word: claptrap
word: cobblers
word: codswallop
word: crap
word: crock
word: crock of shit
word: double Dutch
word: double talk
word: doublespeak
word: dribble
word: drivel
word: eyewash
word: fiddle-faddle
word: flapdoodle
word: flim-flam
word: flizz
word: flummery
word: folderol
word: foolishness
word: footle
word: framis
word: fuckery
word: fuckry
word: fudge
word: galimatias
word: garbage
word: garble
word: gibber
word: gibberish
word: gobbledygook
word: gossip
word: Greek
word: guff
word: gup
word: hoax
word: hocus-pocus
word: hogwash
word: hokum
word: hooey
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horse piss
word: horse puckey
word: horseshit
word: humbug
word: Irish bull
word: jabber
word: jargon
word: jibber-jabber
word: jimjam
word: jive
word: junk
word: lallation
word: macaroni
word: malarkey
word: manure
word: meaninglessness
word: moonshine
word: mumbo jumbo
word: nertz
word: nonsense
word: pie in the sky
word: piffle
word: pigswill
word: poppycock
word: prattle
word: put-on
word: rhubarb
word: rhubarb rhubarb
word: rigmarole
word: rot
word: rubbish
word: ruse
word: santorum
word: shit
word: shite
word: skimble-skamble
word: squit
word: stuff
word: stuff and nonsense
word: tommy-rot
word: tosh
word: tush
word: trash
word: tripe
word: twaddle
word: wass
word: whiff-whaff
word: word salad
glosses: Statements made without regard for their truth value.
examples: text: These rules cover how to do your laundry, how to fold your shirts, how to shine your shoes... You know, all that bullshit.
text: And when I rolled with the punches I got knocked on the ground
By all this bullshit going down
ref: 1975, “Fight the Power (Part 1 & 2)”, in The Heat Is On, performed by The Isley Brothers:
glosses: Synonym of shit (in its sense of any stuff, especially when viewed negatively or with collegial vulgarity).
synonyms: word: shit
extra: in its sense of any stuff, especially when viewed negatively or with collegial vulgarity
examples: text: Anyone want to play a few hands of bullshit?
topics: card-games
games
synonyms: BS#Noun
cheat#Noun
I doubt it#Noun
glosses: A card game in which players try to discard their hands first, following rules that encourage bluffing, calling others' bluffs, and penalizing others by tricking them into inaccurate accusations.
Derived terms: be on one's bullshit
bullshido
bullshit artist
bullshit bingo
bullshit job
bullshittee
bullshitter
bullshittery
bullshittism
bullshitty
bullshoot
bullshot
cut the bullshit
money talks, bullshit walks
outbullshit
unbullshit
unbullshitable
Related terms: apeshit
batshit
bearshit
birdshit
bullcrap
catshit
chickenshit
cowshit
dogshit
donkeyshit
goatshit
horseshit
pigshit
ratshit
sheepshit
whaleshit
wormshit