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Hogwash

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Worthless, false, or ridiculous speech or writing; nonsense.

n. Garbage fed to hogs; swill.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. foolish talk or writing; nonsense.

n. swill.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Swill.

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

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The refuse of a kitchen or brewery, etc., given to swine as food; swill.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

Word Usage

"Now this hogwash is centre stage when homes are reprocessed, pensioners are on the breadline, Britain is heading for a police state, shame on the BBC, it was only a matter of time before the state took over the BBC."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

drivel garbage

Hyponym

crap dogshit bullshit horseshit bull Irish bull shit

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

swill nonsense balderdash bunk slops slop bullshit

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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