hogwash

(hôg'wôsh', -wŏsh, hŏg'-)
n.

1. Worthless, false, or ridiculous speech or writing; nonsense.
2. Garbage fed to hogs; swill.

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Definition: nonsense
Antonyms: sense, truth

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Nonsense, rubbish. (1712 —) .
Spectator The whole of the artistic world has been debauched by the hogwash of the do-it-yourself vogue (1965).

[From earlier sense, kitchen swill, etc. for pigs.]

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - sludder, ordskvalder, svinefoder, pladder

Nederlands (Dutch)
onzin, larie, dunne soep, varkensdraf

Français (French)
n. - pâtée des cochons, (fig) foutaises (fam)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Quatsch, Schweinefutter

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μτφ.) σάχλες, ανοησίες, νερόπλυμα

Italiano (Italian)
cosa di nessun valore

Português (Portuguese)
n. - comida (f) de porcos, conversa (f) ou coisa (f) sem valor

Русский (Russian)
свиное пойло, сивуха

Español (Spanish)
n. - bazofia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - svinmat, skulor, hundmat, nonsens

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
猪食, 空洞的作品, 废话

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 豬食, 空洞的作品, 廢話

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 부엌찌끼, 시시한 이야기

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 豚の餌, まずい食べ物, 残飯, くだらない話

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نفايه المطابخ تقدم للخنازير, كلام تافه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שטויות, זבל, פסולת מזון למאכל חזירים‬

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