hogswallop

English

Alternative forms

hog swallop, hog's wallop

Etymology

Variant of codswallop, by analogy with swill (“pig food, garbage”).

Noun

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

See also Thesaurus:nonsense

References

“hogswallop”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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