hogwash

hog·wash

noun \-ˌwȯsh, -ˌwäsh\

Definition of HOGWASH

1

: swill 2a, slop

2

: nonsense, balderdash

Examples of HOGWASH

1. You wouldn't believe the hogwash he was spouting at us.
2. <the librarian told us a lot of hogwash about how you can go to jail for having overdue books>

First Known Use of HOGWASH

15th century

Related to HOGWASH

Synonyms

applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, nonsense, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle

Related Words

absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy; absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness; hoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery; gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole); double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus

Near Antonyms

levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness; common sense, horse sense, sense; discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom

Other Animal Husbandry Terms

apiary, bantam, calico, girth, mast, rut

Rhymes with HOGWASH

awash, backwash, brainwash, brioche, car wash, downwash, eyewash, mouthwash, outwash, rainwash, Siwash, wet wash, whitewash, wish-wash