hogwash

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   informal: foolish, false, or meaningless talk or writing; nonsense

   After all the flattering speech and hogwash, the honest music sounded refreshing.

2. 2
   noun

   a mixture of kitchen scraps or other refuse fed to pigs; swill

   The farmhand carried a bucket of hogwash to the pigs.

A compound of hog and wash. It first referred literally to kitchen refuse or thin swill fed to pigs; the figurative sense treats foolish or false talk as equally worthless fare.

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