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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hogwash \Hog"wash`\, n.
     1. Swill. --Arbuthnot.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Meaningless talk; nonsense; balderdash; bunk; -- also used
        as an interjection, expressing scornful disbelief.


        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hogwash
       n : unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false
           statements) [syn: {bunk}, {bunkum}, {buncombe}, {guff}, {rot}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "hogwash":
     balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bones, bop, bosh,
     bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, chaff, claptrap, crap, culm,
     deadwood, dishwater, draff, dregs, dust, eyewash, filings, flam,
     flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gas, gash, guff, gup, hoke,
     hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, husks,
     jiggery-pokery, leavings, lees, malarkey, moonshine, offal,
     offscourings, orts, parings, piffle, poppycock, potsherds, rags,
     raspings, refuse, rot, scat, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum,
     shards, shavings, shit, slack, slag, slop, slops, stubble,
     sweepings, swill, tares, tommyrot, tripe, wastage, waste,
     waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, wind
  
  

















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