GUFF | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of guff in English

(Definition of guff from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of guff from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of guff

guff
All this guff ought to bring a lot of business into your office.
Let's get together for a talk--and what's with the high-sounding guff?
Those of us who drink from the flasks of the sages of dreamland become so intoxicated with guff we are a peril to everyone.
And don't listen to their guff about wanting to see you again if you treat 'em right.
We know a man will swallow all manner of guff in politics; he'll buy a gold brick from a cheap blatherskite.
That's real people jawing and not a lot of smarty guff.
Don't run in any conscientious guff on a prisoner.
Gave me a lot of guff like that, with no sense to it.
Gives a paper a following, that kind of guff does.
All the women are gathered round, listening to his guff like it was sound sense.
There was a lot of extravagant guff about the curiosities, flowery flapdoodle of the usual barker sort.
I guess that's all guff, anyway.
I got more guff there.
The thing that first got me interested was watching how he slid in the sort of guff he wanted you to get worked up about and think over.
The disgust he felt at the brutality of these guards had made him so soul-sick with them he wasn't going to take any guff from one of them.
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Translations of guff

in Chinese (Traditional)
胡說八道,胡言亂語,蠢話…
in Chinese (Simplified)
胡说八道,胡言乱语,蠢话…
in Spanish
tonterías, disparates…
in Portuguese
bobagem, besteira…
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