What exactly do you think people mean when they say "hogwash" to something you have said

I'm I supposed to go wash the hog

seriously

WTF ?



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My dad used to say, "That's hogwash!" when he found something to be absolutely stupid. When people say, "hogwash", I think it's a substitute word for "bullshit".

psychodelicide said:

I grew up in the North - heard it far more there but someone here just said that to me

I was like WTF

Mach said:

I grew up in Ohio (and still live there), so I guess that's considered North as well.

psychodelicide said:

That's SOUTH of Michigan baby






Oh HOGWASH

A response to something that is either stupid or unbelievable in it's context.

rachel3 said:

are you saying that I - Mach said something stoopid





well HOGWASH

that's just as stupid I mean seriously

hogwash = nonsense

Mach said:

!!

Genesia said:

What's the origin of this. What IS Hogwash? Soap for your hog?

The etymology: hogwash is rubbish from the kitchen that is fed to hogs.

that is so quaint.

if someone said 'hogwash' to me i would probably pinch their cheeks or something.

This from word-detective.com:

Dear Word Detective: Where does "hogwash" derive from?

"Hogwash" in the farming sense is garbage, kitchen waste, or sometimes the leftover refuse of a brewery, used as slop or swill for the feeding of swine. The "wash" in "hogwash" is derived from the noun "wash," which has many senses, including "waste water, discharged after use in washing" (as in rinsing out a pot, for instance), and "hogwash" in the literal feed-the-piggies sense is indeed often largely liquid. "Hogwash" first appeared in English in the barnyard sense around 1440, and by 1712 was being used as a synonym for cheap liquor or any other worthless thing, including bad writing. By the late 1800s, "hogwash" was being used among journalists themselves to describe worthless writing in newspapers, and ever since "hogwash" has been used to mean any sort of intellectually fraudulent argument or specious proclamation.

Hope that sheds somelight...

I am enlightened.

Now what exactly is "fiddle faddle", other than a delicious popcorn treat?

Ain't Hogwash Harry Potter's School?

I imagine a pig's bathwater would be nassssty. Hogwash = "That's some mess!"

I'm partial to "Applesauce!" from a "Little Rascals/Our Gang" episode I saw as a kid. Those were the days.

JuliePurplehead said:

Yup hear that now and then

" Ohh fiddle faddle "

whats 'fish balls ' al about

Hogwash is a good term to become familiar with, especially on the Org.

SCNDLS said:

ThreadBare said:

I used to loooove that show as a kid! I used to say, "Applesauce!" as a kid too sometimes. "Ohhhhh applesauce, Mary!"
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ThreadBare said:

You have no idea. The smell of wet pigs is one of the most disgusting things ever. I grew up on a farm and was in 4-H; I had to show pigs at the county fair. (I hated it!) Anyway, the evening before, or usually the morning of (6am) the hog show, we would have to wash the pigs so they would be all clean. OMG, it was disgusting. I will spare you the shitty details (pun intended) but I would be gagging and dry heaving the entire time. (And I am not a prissy girl who doesn't like getting dirty.) I hated it so much.

And on the farm, every time it rained, it smelled so bad. I would complain to my dad and he would say, "That's the smell of money." Umm, no, it still smells like


The smell of cattle, horses, even sheep, never bothered me that much. But wet pigs... I was so relieved when my dad let me stop showing them, and then sold them all a few years later.

Now he just has beef cattle.


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and what about hornswoggle

psychodelicide said:

That's the one!!!

ThreadBare said:

! Wasn't it Jackie Cooper who said that?

Mach said:

Hog wash is what pig food is called. So if something is hogwash, it's crap.

I idioms.

where i'm from it means "let's have sex".

Anxiety said:

Oh hogwash