Thread: брехомет?

It's from a world war 2 cartoon. My dictionaries couldn't translate it, and google doesn't help much.

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What does it mean?

It's a combination of two words: брехня ("lies") and пулемет ("machine gun"). Hitler is using lie as a weapon.

I see. Thank you!

The only thing I would add to what gRomoZeka said is that пулемёт etymologically means "bullet thrower" -- from пуля ("bullet") and метать ("to throw"). And in Russian articles about ancient and medieval catapult-type weapons, you may occasionally see the words стреломёт and камнемёт -- respectively, "arrow thrower" and "stone thrower", depending on the type of projectile used.

So it's literally something like "hurler of lies".