- hogwash
- n1. swill, slop, refuse, Dial. culch; garbage, waste, offal; dregs, remains, offscourings; leavings, sweepings, scraps, orts, leftovers; remainder, residue, residuum, scum, filth.2. junk, worthless stuff, trumpery; trifles, trinkets, gimcrackery, baubles, gewgaws, frippery; remnants, fragments, fag ends, bit and pieces, odds and ends; cast-offs, rags, tatters, castaways, rejects, discards.3. nonsense, falderal, gibberish, babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bavardage; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit. twattle, twattling; blather, blathering, drivel, driveling, drool, drooling; jargon, Greek, Chiefly Southern U.S.Choctaw; hocus-pocus, mumbo jumbo, abracadabra, fiddle-de-dee; moonshine, gobblede-gook, humbug, foam, froth, bunkum or buncombe, Sl. bunk, U.S. Sl. blah; flummery, Inf. hokum, Sl. applesauce, Sl. eyewash; rubbish, Sl. tripe, refuse, Dial. culch, chaff, trash, Inf. truck, trumpery; tommyrot, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. crap, Sl. crock, Sl. bull; balderdash, Sl. horsefeathers, stuff, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. Inf. gammon, Brit. Sl. tosh; fudge, foolishness, folly, rigamarole or rigmarole, am-phigory; footle, Inf. malarkey, Sl. bushwa, Sl. baloney, Sl. bilge or bilge water, Sl. meshugaas, Scot, and North Eng. haver; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. hooey, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle; idle talk, Inf. gab, Sl. gas, palaver, palavering, palaverment; claptrap, rodomontade, fustian, bombast, rant, Sl. hot air; Jabberwocky, jabber, jabbering, prate, prating; patter, pattering, gabble, gabbling; clack, clacking, clatter, clattering, rattling, Sl. running off or on at the mouth; chatter, chattering, prattle, prattling, chippering, cackle, cackling; chit-chat, chitter-chatter, small talk, Anglo-Indian. bukh. hoi
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.