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Hogwash

created by Webster 1913

(thing) by Mark Forest (3.2 d) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Mon Aug 20 2001 at 10:24:07

This phrase is currently synonymous with "bullshit."

This term was first used to describe farmers' kitchen refuse that would be fed to the pigs. The pigs, in turn, would be fed to the farmers. So continues the great circle of life.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:10:34

Hog"wash` (?), n.

Swill.

Arbuthnot.

 

© Webster 1913.

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