hogwash

hogwash
Synonyms and related words:
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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  • Hogwash — est un groupe de punk rock français, fondé à Paris en 2001. Il se compose de Rafik au chant et à la guitare, Skud au chant et à la guitare, Victor à la basse et aux chœurs et Djej à la batterie. Leurs influences vont de Propagandhi à Green Day,… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Hogwash — Hog wash , n. 1. Swill. Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 2. Meaningless talk; nonsense; balderdash; bunk; also used as an interjection, expressing scornful disbelief. [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hogwash — mid 15c., slops fed to pigs, from HOG (Cf. hog) (n.) + WASH (Cf. wash). Extended to cheap liquor (1712) then to inferior writing (1773) …   Etymology dictionary

  • hogwash — [n] nonsense absurdity, balderdash*, baloney*, BS*, bull*, bunk*, debris, drivel*, foolishness, hokum, hooey*, horsefeathers*, poppycock*, refuse, ridiculousness, rot, rubbish, trash, twaddle*; concept 278 Ant. sense, truth …   New thesaurus

  • hogwash — ► NOUN informal ▪ nonsense. ORIGIN originally meaning «kitchen swill for pigs» …   English terms dictionary

  • hogwash — [hôg′wôsh΄] n. 1. refuse fed to hogs; swill 2. useless or insincere talk, writing, etc …   English World dictionary

  • hogwash — 1. n. bad food or drink. □ This stuff is hogwash. Take it away. □ How about some more of this high quality hogwash? 2. n. nonsense. □ Now that’s just hogwash, and you know it. □ …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • hogwash — [[t]hɒ̱gwɒʃ, AM hɔ͟ːg [/t]] N UNCOUNT (disapproval) 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. Syn: rubbish …   English dictionary

  • hogwash — hog|wash [ˈhɔgwɔʃ US ˈha:gwa:ʃ, ˈho:g , wo:ʃ] n [U] informal stupid or untrue talk = ↑nonsense, rubbish ↑rubbish ▪ That s a load of hogwash! …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • hogwash — false statements, bull, bunk, hot air    He told you I have a pet python? That s a lot of hogwash! …   English idioms

  • hogwash — noun (U) stupid talk: That s a load of hogwash! …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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