guff

English

guff (uncountable)

(informal) Nonsensical talk or thinking.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:
  “… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. […] If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes ; love of the people, and that sort of guff.”
(informal) Superfluous information.
(informal) Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.

(nonsensical talk or thinking): balls, bull, bulldust, bullshit, crap, nonsense, rubbish, tripe
(insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks): brass neck, cheek, impudence, insolence, lip

nonsensical talk or thinking

German: Quatsch (de) m, Stuss (de) m, Nonsens (de) m, Schmarren (de) m (Southern Germany), Quark (de) m, Käse (de) m, Kappes (de) m (Rhineland), Unsinn (de) m, Blödsinn (de) m, Stuss (de) m, Mumpitz (de) m
Spanish: paparruchas (es) f pl, chorradas f pl, pendejadas (es) f pl, tontería (es), boludez f (Argentina), bobada (es) f (Spain), huevada (es) f (Chile)

insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks

guff (third-person singular simple present guffs, present participle guffing, simple past and past participle guffed)

(slang) To break wind.
(slang) To mislead.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 14:
  "Let me see if I get you. You can't bear to help convict Ashe of murder because you doubt if he's guilty, so you're scooting. Right?"
  […] "That's close enough," Wolfe said.
  "Not close enough for me. If you expect me to […] invite a stiff fine for running out on a subpoena […] , don't try to guff me. Say we doubt if Ashe is guilty, but we think he may get tagged because we know Mandelbaum wouldn't go to trial without a good case. Say also our bank account needs a shot in the arm, which is true. So we decide to see if we can […] "

break wind