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   Hog·wash

   /ˈhôɡˌwôSH/

   

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   • 1. nonsense. informal

   Word Origin mid 15th century: from hog + wash; the original sense was ‘kitchen swill for pigs’.

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   What does hogwash mean?

   • If you describe what someone says as hogwash, you think it is nonsense. Sugar said it was a 'load of hogwash' that he was not interested in football. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 2. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2.

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   What does hoggewasch mean?

   • From Middle English *hoggewasch (found only as Middle English hoggyswasch (“refuse of the kitchen for feeding pigs”, literally “hog's wash”) ), equivalent to hog + wash . hogwash (usually uncountable, plural hogwashes) ( informal, figurative) Foolish talk or writing; nonsense . We have more faith in the average American than that.

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   What are some examples of hogwash?

   • • All the rest - philosophy, history, politics - was pure hogwash. • Cotton, with an assist from this public-spirited pillar, has done his best to undo the damage caused by the hogwash. • That's complete and utter hogwash. hogwash meaning, definition, what is hogwash: stupid or untrue talk: Learn more.

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   Where does the word “hogwash” come from?

   • The “wash” in “hogwash” is derived from the noun “wash,” which has many senses, including “waste water, discharged after use in washing” (as in rinsing out a pot, for instance), and “hogwash” in the literal feed-the-piggies sense is indeed often largely liquid.

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   • Etymology
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   From Middle English *hoggewasch (found only as Middle English hoggyswasch (“refuse of the kitchen for feeding pigs”, literally “hog's wash”)), equivalent to hog +‎ wash.

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   hogwash (usually uncountable, plural hogwashes) 1. (informal, figurative) Foolish talk or writing; nonsense. 1.1. Synonyms: nonsense; see also Thesaurus:nonsense 1.1. 2016, T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell, The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition, BenBella Books, Inc., page 214: 1.1.1. We have more faith in the average American than that...

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   Examples from the Corpus hogwash • Grandmother says all that is nonsense and hogwash. • The professional exams for futures dealers are hogwash as far as the directors of some firms are concerned. • Some of this is sound; some of it is hogwash. • If you think the contrarian suggestions sound like so much hogwash, consider this.

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   Hogwash definition: Worthless, false, or ridiculous speech or writing; nonsense.