What's the difference between bunkum and poppycock?

Bunkum


Definition:

  • (n.) Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.
  • (n.) See Buncombe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Touched as I am by this sudden outpouring of concern for the security of my seat, it is, of course, complete bunkum.
  • (2) Philips said the two main arguments against each contender – that McGowan doesn’t look like a premier and Smith is not in parliament – are bunkum.
  • (3) Claims by the energy industry that they can’t cut prices because they bought their supplies far in advance are nothing more than bunkum,” she said.
  • (4) Predictably, the debate that has followed stays within these polarised parameters of accepting it as brave or dismissing it as "bunkum" , and has failed to look at the content of the reforms being proposed.
  • (5) Debi Goenka, the Mumbai activist who challenged Adani’s environmental licence for its mine in the Queensland land court in 2014, said Australian government figures continued to rely on arguments about imported coal lifting Indians out of poverty, which were “all bunkum”.

Poppycock


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gerry Doherty, leader of the TSSA union, and a vocal opponent of Network Rail's bonus payments, said the company's claims of record punctuality were "poppycock".
  • (2) He said: ‘I’d replace it with something terrific.’” That mix of populism and poppycock presented by the resounding Trump is causing tension even within Fox .
  • (3) If that sounds like poppycock, it's probably because it is.
  • (4) There was never any question of me being offered it, or of it being debated … It’s just, as they say, poppycock and piffle.” The tensions surrounding the reshuffle were illustrated in the early evening as a heated discussion appeared to break out in Corbyn’s office after the Labour leader outlined his thinking for the reshuffle to Benn.
  • (5) • Peter Stott, Met Office Hadley Centre, to Phil Jones and others, 8 September 2004 (email 4923) Stott is preparing for a meeting with the ecologist David Bellamy, who has publicly called global warming "poppycock", and is being cautious about not overstating the evidence in case ongoing research shows it to be untrue.
  • (6) There was never any question of me being offered it, or of it being debated … It’s just, as they say, poppycock and piffle.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “It’s poppycock and piffle”: Diane Abbott dismisses shadow foreign secretary rumour Lewis, a new MP who has served in the army in Afghanistan, said he would not be keen to take on a shadow cabinet role so quickly.