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Definition: Hogwash |
HogwashNoun1. A ludicrously false statement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hogwash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references) |
Synonyms: HogwashSynonyms: bull (n), bullshit (n), buncombe (n), bunk (n), bunkum (n), crap (n), dogshit (n), guff (n), horseshit (n), rot (n), shit (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: swilled (food & agriculture). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings; (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hogwash |
| English words defined with "hogwash": Draff. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hogwash! Malarky (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; writing credit: Harriet Frank Jr.; William Inge) | |
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| "Hogwash" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hogwash" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hogwash | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hogwash"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | maltaffald (swill), kornmask (swill). (various references) | |
Dutch | spoeling van graanafval (swill). (various references) | |
Farsi | چیزبی معنی وبیمزه , گنداب اشپزخانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | elintarvikejätteet sianrehuna (hog-wash, pig swill, pig-swill, pig-wash, swill, swillings). (various references) | |
French | drêches de distillerie. (various references) | |
German | Quatsch (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blah, bull, bunk, bunkum, fiddle-faddle, flubdub, garbage, gibberish, hooey, jabberwocky, malarkey, nonsense, poppycock, rubbish, shucks, trash, twaddle). (various references) | |
Greek | κατάλοιπο από την απόσταξη σιτηρών (swill), ανάγουλεσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szamárság (apple souce, bosh, fiddlesticks, piffle, poppycock, punk, shucks, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy rot), sületlenség (flummery, tomfoolery), moslék (dishwater, glop, hog-wash, muck, pig's wash, pigwash, slop, swill, wash). (various references) | |
Italian | residui della distillazione di cereali (swill). (various references) | |
Manx | drow (brewer's grains, draff, dreg). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ogwashhay.(various references) | |
Romanian | lãturi pentru hrãnit porci, lãturi (dish water, kitchen stuff, pig swill, pig's wash, slab, slop, slops, swill, wash). (various references) | |
Russian | пойло (draff, mash). (various references) | |
Spanish | lias de la destilacion de granos (swill). (various references) | |
Swedish | svinmat (pigwash, swill), spannmålsdrank (swill), nonsens (bosh, bunk, bunkum, fandangle, gaff, humbug, moonshine, poppycock, taradiddle, tosh). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hogwash": hogwashes. (additional references) | |
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"Hogwash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chowgarh, Howatch, huggath. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hogwash" (pronounced hÄ"gwÄ'sh) |
| 3 | -w Ä' sh | backwash, brainwash, mouthwash, whitewash. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-h-o-s-w" | |
-3 letters: gash, goas, gosh, hags, hahs, hash, haws, hogs, hows, sago, shag, shah, shaw, shog, show, swag, wags, wash, whoa, wogs. | |
-4 letters: ago, ash, gas, goa, gos, hag, hah, hao, has, haw, hog, how, ohs, sag, saw, sha, shh, sow, wag, was, wha, who, wog, wos. | |
-5 letters: ag, ah, as, aw, go, ha, ho. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-h-o-s-w" | |
+2 letters: hogwashes. | |
+4 letters: shadowgraph, thoughtways, throughways. | |
+5 letters: shadowgraphs, shadowgraphy. | |
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