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Synonyms for hogwash

  • noun

Most common

non-sense drivel guff hokum draff

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Bunkum — foolish talk or writing; nonsense

guff, baloney US AU, non-sense, hokum, poppycock informal, drivel, malarkey informal UK US IE, piffle, mumbo-jumbo, tripe UK, rubbish UK, bunk, garbage US AU CA, humbug, rot, prattle, trash US, jargon, blah, bull, blah-blah, bosh

2. Swill — A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs; swill

swill, slop, slops

Other

draff

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Foolish talk or writing; nonsense.

  2. n. 2

    A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs; swill.

Forms

Plural
hogwashes → guffs, baloneys, hokums, poppycocks…

Example sentences

  • drivel Such drivel. And to top it off, you believe her?
  • guff And don't give me any guff about it.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
hogwashsteady
drivelrising
guffrising
hokumsteady
drafffalling

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

By length

3 letters
rot1
4 letters
bull1, blah1, bunk1, bosh1, slop1, guff1
5 letters
trash1, tripe1, swill1, hokum2, slops, draff
6 letters
jargon2, drivel2, humbug2, piffle
7 letters
garbage2, rubbish2, baloney3, prattle2
8 letters
malarkey3
9 letters
poppycock3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hokum2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

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