Words & TermsWork, bush and rural life
bull dust
Fine powdery outback dust; figuratively, nonsense or false talk.
In a sentence
That explanation sounds like bull dust to me.
Where it came from
The Australian National Dictionary Centre records both specifically Australian senses from the 1920s, including the figurative nonsense sense.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established