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hog·wash

   [hawg-wosh, -wawsh, hog-]
noun
1.
refuse given to hogs; swill.
2.
any worthless stuff.
3.
meaningless or insincere talk, writing, etc.; nonsense; bunk.
Origin:
1400–50; 1900–05 for def. 2; late Middle English. See hog, wash
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Hogwash is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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  • Most of this, to borrow a farm image, is hogwash and bilge.
  • The earlier notion that the excess of vitamins are flushed out of the body is hogwash.
  • But to simply deny something, or to parrot a denial, because the conclusions do not fit an ideology that's pure hogwash.
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hogwash (ˈhɒɡˌwɒʃ)
 
—n
1.  informal nonsense
2.  pigswill

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History

hogwash
c.1440, from hog + wash; originally "slops fed to pigs;" extended to "cheap liquor" (1712) then to "inferior writing" (1773).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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hogwash definition


  1. n.
    bad food or drink. : This stuff is hogwash. Take it away.
  2. n.
    nonsense. : Hogwash! That's about enough of your lies!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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