Word.ws English Dictionary

hogwashes

hogwashes is the plural of hogwash.

Meaning of hogwash

Noun

hogwash (usually uncountable, plural hogwashes)

  1. (figuratively, informal, usually) Foolish talk or writing; nonsense.
    • We have more faith in the average American than that. It’s not true that Americans love hogwash— it’s that hogwash inundates Americans, whether they want it or not! Some Americans want the truth— they just haven’t been able to find it because it is drowned out by hogwash.2016, T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell, The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition, BenBella Books, Inc., page 214
  2. (usually, literal) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs; swill.
    Synonyms:
    slop, slops, swill

Questions about hogwashes

What is hogwashes the plural of?
Hogwashes is the plural of hogwash.

Words near hogwashes in the dictionary

  1. Hogwartsians
  2. Hogwartsier
  3. Hogwartsiest
  4. Hogwartsy
  5. hogwash
  6. hogwashes
  7. hogweed
  8. hogweeds
  9. hogwort
  10. hogyard
  11. hogyards

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hogwashes (page history and authors); hogwash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hogwashes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hogwashes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.