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 …
- 1971, John le Carré, The Naïve and Sentimental Lover
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:nonsense
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