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date: 13 February 2025

Felix Walker fl. 1820
American politician 

  1. I'm talking to Buncombe [‘bunkum’].
    excusing a long, dull, irrelevant speech in the House of Representatives, 1820 (Buncombe being his constituency)
    W. Safire New Language of Politics (2nd ed., 1972); see Carlyle