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Synonyms for bilgewater

  • noun

Most common

tommy-rot bologna drool tosh

All synonyms

Noun

1. Garbage — stupid talk or writing; nonsense

garbage US AU CA, tosh, tommy-rot, bologna, drool, gibberish, bosh, humbug, baloney, twaddle, gobbledygook informal US, gobbledegook UK, taradiddle, rubbish, fudge, drivel, piffle

Other

clap-trap

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

Forms

Plural
bilgewaters → toshes, bolognas, drools, gibberishes…

Example sentences

  • bologna "Can I ask you where you're from?" "From Bologna."
  • drool Half the girls in this town drool over him.
  • tosh Whoever came out with that tosh is an absolute eejit.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
bilgewatersteady
bolognarising
droolrising
toshrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
tosh1, bosh1
5 letters
fudge1, drool1
6 letters
drivel2, humbug2, piffle
7 letters
garbage2, rubbish2, bologna3, baloney3, twaddle2
9 letters
gibberish3
10 letters
taradiddle
12 letters
gobbledygook4, gobbledegook

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (drivel2 = 2 syllables).