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.