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hog-wash
Also hog's wash.
[See wash n.]
a. The swill of a brewery or kitchen given to hogs; pig's-wash.
c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 81 Þey in þe kechyn, for iape, pouryd on here hefd hoggyswasch. 1611Cotgr., Lavailles, Swillings, Hogs-wash, washings for Swine. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. xv. (1737) 58 Ten Sows..could swill Hogwash. 1844P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 247 Wine little better than hogwash.
b. Contemptuously applied to weak inferior liquor or any worthless stuff. Esp. applied to inferior writings of any kind.
1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. x, Your butler purloins your liquor, and the brewer sells you hogwash. 1773Garrick Let. 16 Nov. (1831) I. 583 The Fair Quaker, which we agreed to be skimmed milk, (nay, hogwash) whipped up into syllabub, and swallowed by a foolish audience as if substantial as roast beef. 1882B. Harte Flip ii, That's the sort of hog-wash the old man serves out to you. 1883― In Carquinez Woods 155 He had ‘had enough of that sort of hog-wash ladled out to him for genuine liquor’. 1893Farmer & Henley Slang III. 329/2 Hogwash..(journalists’).—Worthless newspaper matter. 1912G. B. Shaw in Daily News 22 May 6/5 Exactly the same ‘hogwash’..would have been lavished on the veriest dastards as upon a crew of Grace Darlings. 1930Wyndham Lewis Apes of God v. 161 Yes, man alive, a lousy limited edition of an intellectually-fraudulent book that no one could sell, that no one would want!.. Not even as honest-to-goodness bookstall hogwash. 1939L. Durrell Spirit of Place (1969) 62 Only look at the faces of cabinet without reading their hogwash and you see that they are a pack of degenerates. 1955A. Huxley Genius & Goddess 36 Tripe and hogwash dished out by the moulders of public opinion. 1965Spectator 5 Mar. 293/1 The whole of the artistic world has been debauched by the hogwash of the do-it-yourself vogue. |