Bullcorn

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS,  your one-stop slang source (TM),  has both "bullcorn" and the form "bull con," which is from the 1890s.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Subject: Bullcorn
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Just heard this used on That '70s Show as an obvious euphemism for
"bullshit." I've personally known this as a euphemism for "bullcome,"
the local equivalent of "bullshit" used in East Texas BE, since I was
about ten years old. I also heard stories of the use of "bullcorn" by
their Southern relatives from, e.g. Alabama, from friends in Los
Angeles during the 'Sixties.

-Wilson
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