hogwash

Plural: hogwashes

Noun

• Nonsense or utterly worthless talk or writing.
• unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
• Foolish talk or writing; nonsense.
• A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs; swill.

Examples

• His opponent’s claims of being unlucky were pure HOGWASH, given his high score.

Synonyms

buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, rot, BS, Bandini, Greek, Irish bull, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogshit, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, humbug, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, slop, slops, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, swill, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, tush, twaddle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad

Related Words

Derived terms of wash, pigswill from swill, pigwash