dial. and U.S. Also lockum, lockrum. [? Figurative use of prec.; cf. bombast, fustian.
(But cf. logaram dial., in the Eng. Dial. Dict. treated as a corruption of logarithm).]
A pack of gibberish. Also quasi-adj.
1825. J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, I. 157. What has all this long, lockum story to do with your trade?
1837. Haliburton, Clockm., Slick’s Let., 8. As for that long lochrum about Mr. Everett,… there aint a word of truth in it. Ibid. (1855), Nat. & Hum. Nat., I. 14. In Congress no man can speak or read an oration more than an hour long; but he can send the whole lockrum, includin’ what he didn’t say, to the papers.
1854. in Miss Baker, Northants Gloss.
