Guff is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like bunk or bunkum. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Guff meaning
- Nonsensical talk or thinking.
- Superfluous information.
- Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
Guff vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Guff
- The main meaning on this page is: Nonsensical talk or thinking. | Superfluous information. | Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
- Useful related words include: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, rot.
- Possible Dutch translations are: protten, scheten laten, winden laten.
- In the example corpus, guff often appears in combinations such as: of guff, guff and.
Context around Guff
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Guff
- In this selection, "guff" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, siguler, old, 2020, smosh, analytics and became stand out and add context to how "guff" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include anna mae guff and the and becomes a guff shortened version. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "guff" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with guff
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Voters are wise to their guff. (6 words)
This is no ranty conspiracy-touting Twitter guff. (8 words)
He takes no guff when he struts his stuff. (9 words)
Away from all the post-match guff, analytics and leading edge software packages operated by IT-illiterate ex-pros, the most expensive squad in football was turned over by a team in which Will Grigg is the Latics’ most expensive player at £1. (43 words)
But why listen to the man whose literal job it is to know about these things when you can make another hole in the ozone layer by repeating the same old guff ad nauseam? (34 words)
In Nadsat-language a "fit of laughter" becomes a guff (shortened version of guffawing); a " skeleton key " becomes a polyclef ("many keys"); and the "state jail" is blended to the staja. (31 words)
But why listen to the man whose literal job it is to know about these things when you can make another hole in the ozone layer by repeating the same old guff ad nauseam? (34 words)
Example sentences (18)
But why listen to the man whose literal job it is to know about these things when you can make another hole in the ozone layer by repeating the same old guff ad nauseam?
Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology.
With guff like this, Kim's regime helps shore up nationalist politicians in SK and JP.
So the press launches, the free lunches and the big money PR guff are all ignored.
A load of guff, and dangerous if people believe this 'different culture has saved us' rubbish.
Finally, in February 2020, GUFF its ultimate goal: full university divestment from fossil fuels.
He's an associate editor for Collider and has written for Shudder, CBS, Paste Magazine, Guff, Smosh, Obsev Studios, and more.
Siguler Guff's core investment strategies include opportunistic credit, small business private equity, distressed real estate and emerging markets.
This is no ranty conspiracy-touting Twitter guff.
But you have to cut through a lot of guff to get there.
Father Bartos is survived by his cousins Dr. Kucer, Dr. Thomas Balshi, Anna Mae Guff and the extended families.
Mr. Apfel joins Siguler Guff with approximately 30 years of credit-related portfolio management, origination and underwriting experience.
Away from all the post-match guff, analytics and leading edge software packages operated by IT-illiterate ex-pros, the most expensive squad in football was turned over by a team in which Will Grigg is the Latics’ most expensive player at £1.
He takes no guff when he struts his stuff.
The practice of 3D conversion started out as taking some serious guff from purists, but a film like shows just how far it's come after all of these years.
Voters are wise to their guff.
Illumination Mac Guff became the animation studio for some of the top English-language animated movies of the 2010s, including The Lorax and the Despicable Me franchise.
In Nadsat-language a "fit of laughter" becomes a guff (shortened version of guffawing); a " skeleton key " becomes a polyclef ("many keys"); and the "state jail" is blended to the staja.
Common combinations with guff
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of guff 2×
- guff and 2×