hogswallop

English

Alternative forms

• hog swallop, hog's wallop

Etymology

Variant of codswallop, by analogy with swill (“pig food, garbage”).

Noun

hogswallop (uncountable)

1. 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.