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/hˈɑgwˌɑʃ/ Listen

noun

Hogwash n.

Swill.

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

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Etymology of 'Hogwash'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hogwash" Quotes from Famous Books

... the taste of a pig to eat hogwash like that! There's too much salt in it; it smells of dirty rags . . . more like bugs than onions. . . . It's simply revolting, Anfissa Ivanovna," he says, addressing the midwife. "Every day I give no end of money for housekeeping. . . . I deny myself everything, and this is what they ...

— The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... scullion, girt with a white apron, poured into his cup. He wondered whether the scullion's apron was damp too or whether all white things were cold and damp. Nasty Roche and Saurin drank cocoa that their people sent them in tins. They said they could not drink the tea; that it was hogwash. Their fathers were ...

— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

... taste of a pig to eat hogwash like that! There's too much salt in it; it smells of dirty rags . . . more like bugs than onions. . . . It's simply revolting, Anfissa Ivanovna," he says, addressing the midwife. "Every day I give no end of money for housekeeping. . . . I deny myself everything, and this is what they provide ...

— The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... my nerves. 'Twas Peter's ad that brought 'em down. You see, 'twas 'long toward the end of the season at the Old Home, and Brown had been advertising in the New York and Boston papers to "bag the leftovers," as he called it. Besides the reg'lar hogwash about the "breath of old ocean" and the "simple, cleanly living of the bygone days we dream about," there was some new froth concerning hunting and fishing. You'd think the wild geese roosted on the flagpole ...

— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln