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Hogwash definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOG'WASH, n. [hog and wash.] Swill; the refuse matters of a kitchen or brewery, or like matter for swine.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. swill 2a, slop 2. nonsense, balderdash

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 colloq. nonsense, rubbish. 2 kitchen swill etc. for pigs.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hogwash Hog"wash`, n. Swill. --Arbuthnot.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe what someone says as hogwash, you think it is nonsense. (INFORMAL) Sugar said it was a 'load of hogwash' that he was not interested in football. = rubbish [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bones, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, chaff, claptrap, crap, culm, deadwood, dishwater, draff, dregs, dust, eyewash, filings, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gas, gash, guff, gup, hoke, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, husks, jiggery-pokery, leavings, lees, malarkey, moonshine, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, piffle, poppycock, potsherds, rags, raspings, refuse, rot, scat, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, shards, shavings, shit, slack, slag, slop, slops, stubble, sweepings, swill, tares, tommyrot, tripe, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, wind