pucky
Pucky is a dated American euphemism for feces — a softened, childish-sounding substitute for more direct terms.
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Pucky is a dated American euphemism for feces — a softened, childish-sounding substitute for more direct terms. It belongs to the long tradition of family-friendly poop words used around small children or in polite company when the speaker wants to reference the subject without actually swearing or being graphic. While it's fallen out of widespread use, it still surfaces in nostalgic contexts, regional American speech, and from parents searching for age-appropriate bathroom vocabulary.
The dog got into the compost and tracked pucky all through the kitchen, and nobody was happy about it.
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(slang, US, euphemistic, dated) Feces, excrement.
“We're all Fox viewers at this point. Because Fox News hosts run the government. And they expect us to believe whatever horse pucky comes out of their drunken mouths”
“We're all Fox viewers at this point. Because Fox News hosts run the government. And they expect us to believe whatever horse pucky comes out of their drunken mouths”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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A clean-ish American euphemism for bullshit — used when you want to call out nonsense, lies, or total garbage without dropping the actual profanity. Bullpucky keeps the dismissive punch of its ruder cousin while staying marginally more polite, making it popular in workplaces, around kids, or on TV where language gets monitored. If someone's feeding you a load of excuses that don't hold up, bullpucky is your all-weather, broadcast-safe way to say so.
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(slang, euphemistic) Horseshit, nonsense, horse hockey.
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(slang) Resembling or covered in muck or goo.