heifer dustとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

heifer dust (uncountable)

1. (US, slang, historical) Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco.
2. (slang, derogatory, figuratively, dated) Nonsense; rubbish.

   Synonyms: bulldust (slang), bullshit (vulgar)

   • 1912, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, Amalgamated Transit Union (contributor), “Congratulates 479”, in The Motorman And Conductor‎, volume 21, number 1, page 37:

     There is a dub on the span board that throws out a lot of heifer dust.

   • 1927, Eric Sherbrooke Walker, The Confessions of a Rum-Runner, page 256:

     Even if they do get pinched, they always have some heifer dust ready about laying a trap for a ship, and trying to make the shore in an hour to get evidence against her to have her pulled in.

   • 1972, United States Congress, Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates Volume 118, Part 11, page 14430:

     The obligation is to provide the people with the truth; not with a lot of rhetoric and heifer dust, if I may use that phrase.

   • 2018, Emily March, Capture The Night:

     "Nope." He held up the magazine. "I've been reading up on this philosopher fella you people set such store in. I've got to tell you, Maddie, I think what he's preachin' is just a bunch of heifer dust."