heifer dust

English

Noun

heifer dust (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang, historical) Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco.
  2. (slang, derogatory, figuratively, dated) Nonsense; rubbish.
    Synonyms: bulldust (slang), bullshit (vulgar)
    • 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."
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