Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Worthless, false, or ridiculous speech or writing; nonsense.
  • noun Garbage fed to hogs; swill.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The refuse of a kitchen or brewery, etc., given to swine as food; swill.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun slang foolish talk or writing; nonsense.
  • noun swill.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

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Examples

  • Where do I sign up to send all of my money to these people to ensure that these crooks can preach their hogwash from the highest mountain?

    New group tries to convince Cheney to run in 2012 2009

  • Now this hogwash is centre stage when homes are reprocessed, pensioners are on the breadline, Britain is heading for a police state, shame on the BBC, it was only a matter of time before the state took over the BBC.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • HENRY: Now when pressed on the criticism that the White House has lost credibility because of mistakes made in Iraq, the vice president dismissed that criticism as, quote, "hogwash" -- Lou?

    CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2007 2007

  • HENRY: And when pressed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the criticism that the White House has lost credibility because of mistakes made in Iraq, the vice president said, quote, "hogwash" -- Miles.

    CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2007 2007

  • No. That would be called hogwash in Luttrell, Tennessee.

    CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006 2006

  • That would be called hogwash in Luttrell, Tennessee.

    CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2005 2005

  • Some observers fear their capabilities are dwarfed by the task ahead and that their plan amounts to what one diplomat called "hogwash".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • I announce the idea hogwash, scribble a host of totally disconnected references to the Bible, ancient near eastern kings, some hieroglyphs, a stolen word or two of Chinease I've picked up

    Wired Campus 2010

  • I announce the idea hogwash, scribble a host of totally disconnected references to the Bible, ancient near eastern kings, some hieroglyphs, a stolen word or two of Chinease I've picked up

    Wired Campus 2010

  • I announce the idea hogwash, scribble a host of totally disconnected references to the Bible, ancient near eastern kings, some hieroglyphs, a stolen word or two of Chinease I've picked up

    Wired Campus 2010

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