hogwash

hogwash

1. Nonsense or foolishness. His explanation is total hogwash and doesn't answer the question at all.
2. Unappetizing food or drink, often beer. Ew, don't drink that—it's total hogwash.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hogwash

1. n. bad food or drink. This stuff is hogwash. Take it away.
2. n. nonsense. Hogwash! That’s about enough of your lies!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • flamdoodle
  • fadoodle
  • falderal
  • folderol
  • flapdoodle
  • buncombe
  • gabber
  • gibber
  • gibber-gabber
  • jibber-jabber
References in periodicals archive
"Pure hogwash, pure hogwash yung mga kaso na naman yan.
it's hogwash," Mark Pulisic said, (https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/pulisic-premier-league-hogwash-insists-father) as per FourFourTwo .
Patients, parents and staff were treated to the all-singing, all-dancing performance which saw Crusoe fight for the love of Princess Mayflower and battle the dastardly pirate Captain Hogwash. The show, put on by charity Starlight Children Foundation, is one of an eight-week UK tour where actors entertain ill children in paediatric wards up and down the country.
Speaking to M AIL T ODAY , Verma said the commission assured him the probe wouldn't be a hogwash and that justice is round the corner.
A love of treasure sees our Captain slip out from his swine ship Hogwash late one night in order to add to his collection of gold and jewels.
When one of the assembled press asked for Hoggard's opinion, he grinned: "What did they expect us to do - send out a fielder with clown's feet?" The spirit of cricket was " hogwash. England beating Australia was everything.
DOWN 1 Hogwash; 2 Pandemonium; 3 Fictitious; 4 Lobe; 5 Eye; 6 Raiders; 7 Rehearsal; 8 Todd; 13 Cholesterol; 14 Helicopter; 15 Albatross; 18 Meander; 20 Summary; 23 Troy; 24 Stop; 26 Ebb.
Reject the racist birther hogwash. Barack Hussein Obama is American.
Which presenter made remarks deemed offensive by the BBC Trust as he called the Bible's Book of Genesis "hogwash"?
Three days of wall to wall hogwash and hype - and what of the cost to the taxpayer?
Mugabe's party, however, dismissed reports that he had been gravely ill as 'a lot of hogwash' from hostile Western media organizations, Express.co.uk reports.
Our society is sick too; what it constantly receives from SWAPO as medicine is a handful of Aspirins and a generous dose of hogwash. Both cannot heal Namibia; we now know it.
blurred Dreams, I don't mix hogwash with reality I don't
When kicked off the programme they can then sell a nonexistent life story to the media and write a book full of hogwash. Of course, if that doesn't work, they can always feel sad and offended, blame it all on society and sue the council.
The Hog responds with "Hogwash," a heavenly specialty peculiar to pigs.