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Meaning of HOGWASH

Pronunciation:  'hog`wâsh

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements); "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"
 
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 Synonyms: bull, bullshit, buncombe, bunk, bunkum, crap, dogshit, guff, horseshit, Irish bull, rot, shit
 
 See Also: drivel

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Hog"wash`\, n.
Swill. --Arbuthnot.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: 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
 

 

 

 

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