bilge

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to take in water at the bilge

   The tanker bilged before it sank.

2. 2
   verb

   to cause to leak

   The collision bilged the vessel.

3. 3
   noun

   Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

   Talk bilge.

Likely derived from bulge. Compare Middle English bulgen (“to ground or scuttle a ship”).

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