Thesaurus:bullshit
English
Interjection
Sense: expression of scoffery, incredulity, disbelief or doubt
Synonyms
- applesauce (US, dated, slang)
- bender (UK, obsolete)
- bollocks (UK, vulgar)
- bosh (UK)
- bugger off (Commonwealth, vulgar, idiomatic)
- bullcrap
- bullcrud
- bullfuck (vulgar)
- bullshit (vulgar)
- chinny reckon (UK)
- codswallop (UK)
- come off it (UK)
- come on [⇒ thesaurus]
- c'mon
- fiddle (obsolete)
- fiddledeedee (dated)
- fiddle-faddle (dated)
- fiddlefart
- fiddlestick
- fiddlesticks
- flummery
- fuck off (vulgar)
- gertcha (UK)
- get away
- get out of here
- get out of it
- get out of town
- get outta here
- get to fuck (UK, vulgar)
- gimme a break
- give over
- go on
- harumph
- Hookey Walker (UK, archaic)
- horsefeathers (euphemistic)
- horse hockey
- horseshit
- malarkey
- no [⇒ thesaurus] (q.v. for synonyms)
- no way
- nonsense [⇒ thesaurus]
- pshaw
- pshh
- pshht
- pssh
- pssht
- pull the other leg (idiomatic)
- pull the other one (idiomatic)
- pull the other one, it's got bells on (idiomatic)
- pull the other one, it's got brass bells on (idiomatic)
- rubbish (chiefly Commonwealth)
- stroll on
- tell it to Sweeney (idiomatic)
- tell it to the judge (idiomatic)
- tell it to the marines (idiomatic)
- tell me another one (idiomatic)
- Walker (UK, archaic)
- yeah, right (sarcastic)
- you're having me on
- you're pulling my leg (idiomatic)
Antonyms
- absolutely
- damn skippy
- damn straight
- indeed
- I'll be bound
- true dat
- true that
- trufax (Internet slang)
Hyponyms
Note: Commonly used with noun, adjective, or adverb phrases: "Your friend/Single/Quickly/[etc.], [synonym]!"
Note: Commonly used with verb phrases: "[synonym] he is/I will/they did/[etc.]!"
Various
- credat iudaeus Apella, non ego (Latin)
See also
Further reading
- “497. absurdity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “bullshit” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.