hogswallop
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of codswallop, by analogy with swill (“pig food, garbage”).
Noun[edit]
hogswallop (uncountable)
- Nonsense, rubbish.
- 1971, John le Carré, The Naïve and Sentimental Lover:
- One law for him, another for us. Hogswallop. Shamus has conned us, Cassidy. Shamus has pulled off the biggest bloody load of hokum …
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:nonsense
References[edit]
- “hogswallop”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.