Nowadays, the most familiar sense of hogwash is the figurative one: an implausible explanation is hogwash, synonymous with hooey, humbug, baloney, fiddie faddle, blarney, codswallop, horsefeathers, bullshit, and poppycock. In the fifteenth century, however, hogwash referred to the slop or swill produced by a kitchen. The water used to boil the turnip, the carrot scrapings, the unusable bits of fat and gristle\u2014all were thrown into a pail under the sink before being carried out and fed to the hogs. In the sixteenth century, hogwash encountered a competitor with the appearance of swill, a word deriving from the Old English swillan, meaning to wash out.<\/p>\n
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Nowadays, the most familiar sense of hogwash is the figurative one: an implausible explanation is hogwash, synonymous with hooey, humbug, baloney, fiddie faddle, blarney, codswallop, horsefeathers, bullshit, and poppycock. In the fifteenth century, however, hogwash referred to the slop or swill produced by a kitchen. The water used to boil the turnip, the carrot scrapings, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h"],"yoast_head":"\n