different between bunkum vs infano

English

Alternative forms

• buncombe

Etymology

From buncombe, from “speaking to (or for) Buncombe County, North Carolina”, a county in North Carolina named for Edward Buncombe. In 1820, Felix Walker, who represented the county in the U.S. House of Representatives, rose to address the question of admitting Missouri as a free or slave state, his first attempt to speak on the subject after nearly a month of solid debate, right before the vote was to be called. To the exasperation of colleagues, he began a long and wearisome speech, explaining that he was speaking not to Congress but "to Buncombe." He was ultimately shouted down by his colleagues, though his speech was published in a Washington paper and his persistence made "buncombe" (later respelled "bunkum") a synonym for meaningless political claptrap and later for any kind of nonsense, at first only in the jargon of Washington and then in common usage (see discussion on talk page).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??k?m/
• Homophone: buncombe
• Hyphenation: bunk?um

Noun

bunkum (countable and uncountable, plural bunkums)

1. (slang, countable) Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense

2. (politics) Bombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public applause. [1820s]

Derived terms

• bunk
• debunk
• hokum

References

Esperanto

Etymology

From French enfant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in?fano/
• Hyphenation: in?fa?no
• Rhymes: -ano
• Audio:

Noun

infano (accusative singular infanon, plural infanoj, accusative plural infanojn)

1. child
   • 1903, L. L. Zamenhof, Fundamenta Krestomatio, Project Gutenberg transcription

     Por miaj kvar infanoj mi a?etis dek du pomojn

     For my four children I bought twelve apples

Synonyms

• geknabo (“boy or girl”)
• homido (“human offspring”)
• infanino (“(female) child”)

Hypernyms

• ido (“offspring”)

Hyponyms

• knabo (“boy”)
• knabino (“girl”)
• filo (“son”)
• filino (“daughter”)

Derived terms

• infana?a (“childhood (used attributively)”)
• infana?o (“childhood”)
• infaneca (“childish”)
• infaneco (“childhood”)
• infansoldato (“child soldier”)
• infaneto (“infant, baby”)

Related terms

• infana (“child (used attributively), childlike”)
• bebo (“infant, baby”)