noun
- Plural of hogwash; nonsensical or false statements; rubbish or worthless talk.
- Plural of hogwash; swill or refuse fed to pigs.
Usage: informal; countable or uncountable
Usage: literal; archaic or dialectal
verb
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hogwash; to feed hogwash to; to dismiss as nonsense.
Usage: rare; informal
Examples
- That politician's claims are pure hogwashes designed to mislead voters.
- I don't believe any of those hogwashes about miracle cures.
- The report was full of hogwashes and unsupported allegations.
- She dismissed his excuses as hogwashes.
- The farmer collected kitchen hogwashes to feed the pigs.
- Don't listen to such hogwashes; stick to the facts.