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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hogwash
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ That stuff is just a bunch of hogwash.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the rest - philosophy, history, politics - was pure hogwash.
▪ Anyway, it might still be a lot of hogwash.
▪ Cotton, with an assist from this public-spirited pillar, has done his best to undo the damage caused by the hogwash.
▪ Grandmother says all that is nonsense and hogwash.
▪ If you think the contrarian suggestions sound like so much hogwash, consider this.
▪ Some of this is sound; some of it is hogwash.
▪ That's complete and utter hogwash.
▪ The professional exams for futures dealers are hogwash as far as the directors of some firms are concerned.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hogwash

Hogwash \Hog"wash`\, n.

  1. Swill.
    --Arbuthnot.

  2. Meaningless talk; nonsense; balderdash; bunk; -- also used as an interjection, expressing scornful disbelief.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hogwash

mid-15c., "slops fed to pigs," from hog (n.) + wash (n.). Extended to "cheap liquor" (1712) then to "inferior writing" (1773).

Wiktionary
hogwash

n. 1 (context slang English) foolish talk or writing; nonsense. 2 swill.

WordNet
hogwash

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

Wikipedia
Hogwash

Hogwash may refer to:

  • Pig swill
  • Slang for " nonsense"
  • A blues-rock album by UK band The Groundhogs

Usage examples of "hogwash".

As far as Amanda was concerned, her mother was a snob, and her theory was hogwash.

It was pure, blatant banana oil, liberally laced with hogwash, but experience had taught Prince Gallantine that villains ate up such stuff with a spoon.