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Bulshytt 

Technical and clinical term denoting speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said. The word, not to be confused with the broader term, "bullshit," was coined by author Neal Stephenson in his speculative-fiction novel Anathem.

According to Stephenson, people who use this type of rhetoric are "more prone than anyone else to taking offense (or pretending to) when their bulshytt is pointed out to them." Ironically, people who use this seemingly confrontational term can be "excluded from polite discourse, unless they say the same thing in a different way, which means becoming a purveyor of bulshytt oneself. The latter quality probably explains the uncanny stability and resiliency of bulshytt."
Source: Anathem (appendix: glossary) Neal Stephenson, 2008.
The best corporate blogs shed their bulshytt and speak to people in the same tone and manner as if reader and blogger were chatting over a keg of beer. There’s a reason for that. People are exposed to plenty of corporate happy-talk and marketing prose in your ads. They don’t need more.
Bulshytt by riskplaya December 2, 2009
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Someone being loud and roundy and a general pain in the ass
Last night at the bar susan was being so bulshy to try to attract johns attention
Bulshy by azivozi March 22, 2011
Man your pants are bulchy, did you get them at goodwill?
Bulchy by AbbiB June 2, 2017
bulchyn is the art of having a bul on your chyn. it is a know fact that red heads have the biggest bulchyns of all
Melissa is a red head there for she has a massive bulchyn
bulchyn by im a moose May 22, 2011
a realy hott girl with green eyes. a girl with georgous hair. a girl with the most beautiful smile ever. a girl with a rockin body. a pale long haired brunett with amazing emerald green eyes. a pale girl with long hair. a realy smart girl. a hyphy brunett with a BUICK. a realy flakey girl that you can alway forgive because she is perfect. a girl who loks like snow white. a girl who loves to gig. a girl who will always makew you smile. a girl who comes around less than christmas but its worth the wait. a girl who you will do anything to get.
"damn that girl is buphy". you got buphyed. that girl is so buphy. look at her go shes buphy. now thats buphy. i want a buphy, i wish i had a buphy. i cant wait until buphy. lets go buphy. i would wait forever for buphy.
buphy by that privilaged thang April 18, 2010
the iridescent cloud when rainbows collide with asteroids; Japanese term for unicorn farts
"woah! check that major bulph!"

"Hey, do you smell that bulph.. there's unicorns around these parts"
bulph by poof101 January 29, 2014