What's the difference between bunk and guff?

Bunk


Definition:

  • (n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  • (n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
  • (n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • (v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At about 10.15pm, he woke and saw Michael hanging from the top rail of the double bunk.
  • (2) A studio for three (which includes a set of bunk beds) during the same period, in Praia apartments, 9km from the Maracanã, is available for £7,819.
  • (3) Soldiers also spoke of how positive the experience had been – even if they had lost out on a bunk.
  • (4) But surely no machinist could bunk off their punishing workload to script these complaints in pristine English, stitch them in and whisk them past a pin-sharp inspector.
  • (5) The former TV and radio presenter, who suffers from an irregular heartbeat, sleeps on the bottom bunk of the bed he shares with his cellmate because he is unable to tackle the ladders, the court heard.
  • (6) This was partly compensated for by a higher intake of bunk feedstuffs.
  • (7) He slept in a bunk bed in his parents’ home until, aged 24, he left to get married to another solicitor, Saadiya Ahmed.
  • (8) She did not hesitate to treat Hefner's emancipation claims as bunk.
  • (9) The two groups of cows were housed in adjoining lots and fed identical rations from opposite sides of a feed bunk which provided .9 m linear feeding space per cow.
  • (10) In the barrack, the bunks were three on top of each other.
  • (11) Rationing of individual concentrates was according to parity, milk yield, milk yield potential, BW changes, and bunk feed-stuffs.
  • (12) Injuries occurred during sleep (19 children [29%]), getting in or out of the bunk bed (13 children [20%]), or playing in or near the beds (28 children [43%]).
  • (13) The Tories’ Corbyn attack video is absurd, paranoid and nasty – and will work | Jonathan Jones Read more Needless to say, both depictions are bunk.
  • (14) A control group of children who use bunk beds but who came to the emergency department for another reason were also interviewed.
  • (15) The boys in the top bunks played mouth organs, and I danced to entertain them.
  • (16) Among women with a duration of pregnancy between 37 and 42 gestational weeks procentual frequency, confidence intervals of O. Bunke, pounts of separability and areas of unsharpners were analysed.
  • (17) Numerous flights out of Wellington, Auckland and regional North Island centres have also been delayed or diverted due to the conditions, with passengers bunking down in the airport after being unable to find accommodation in the city.
  • (18) Many of them had to sleep on the floor to give holidaymakers their bunks.
  • (19) David Cameron shared a military bunk bed with former England player Michael Owen on their flight out to Afghanistan to promote a new football partnership aimed at boosting national spirit in the war-torn country.
  • (20) She conceded it would, observing that if visitors had the stamina to walk up the cursus or the avenue from the east, there would be nothing stopping them from bunking in without paying.

Guff


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, we internalise all the guff telling us that poverty is the inevitable result of an individual’s moral decrepitude.
  • (2) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
  • (3) If we cannot talk about redistribution, what is the point of this guff on social mobility?
  • (4) Forget all that ministerial guff about the necessity of cutting the public sector to spur economic growth.
  • (5) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
  • (6) At least it trumps its predecessor thanks to the inclusion of the word ‘girt’, which undercuts all the guff about “golden soil” and being “young and free” by virtue of sounding like an Irishman saying ‘girth’.
  • (7) Forget the guff about the need for further environmental investigation (which in any case has already been done) and about which this carelessly non-green government does not give a fig.
  • (8) Nobody, not even Geoff Boycott, cares about such inane guff.
  • (9) In fact, I don't think there's a single product in the entire cosmetics industry that prompts as much guff from advertisers, PRs and shop assistants as moisturisers, and that really is saying something.
  • (10) But the point needs making: the idea that they are run by sports-phobic softies is up there with all the guff talked about immigration, health and safety and the rest.
  • (11) Cody offers a standing rebuke to all the guff being spouted about a dearth of right-wing comedy.
  • (12) Angling, wildlife and heritage groups on Thursday attacked new proposals for a £34bn tidal barrage across the Severn estuary, with one telling MPs that environmental benefits touted by proponents of the barrage are "spin" and "guff".
  • (13) He needs us to believe that commercial management techniques - performance-related pay, new employment contracts and efficiency targets - are what's needed, rather than sentimental guff about public spirit.
  • (14) The resulting disembodiment of their mouth-guff will have an air of the supernatural or even divine.
  • (15) You know it's ruinous guff and adds nothing to the human experience, but you can't miss an episode.
  • (16) Or as if diversity of leadership and ownership did not really matter, as long as the data-driven, responsively designed new news becomes a radical and successful enough departure from the drab anecdote laden guff put out by those other men.
  • (17) Statements from the insurance industry are vague and nebulous – plenty of reassuring guff about encouraging market conditions, rather than new insurance products we can actually buy.
  • (18) Is it, for all Nick Clegg's guff about "progressive cuts", that the real agenda is to complete the demolition job on welfare states that was started in the 1980s?
  • (19) Tech City and Year of Code may be lovely and shiny, but we need to move beyond the PR guff.
  • (20) <Insert guff about how it might be the stroke of luck he needs to compile a matchwinning 62,867 not out here>.