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Etymology

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From hog +‎ shit.

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Noun

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hogshit (uncountable)

  1. (slang, vulgar) The excrement of a hog.
    • 1978, Albert D. Werder, A Spartan education[1], →ISBN, page 156:
      Take hogshit for instance.
    • 1968, Harry Crews, The Gospel Singer[2], page 74:
      It was the odor of slop and mud and hogshit so layered by time that it seeped out of the ground and grass and weeds and trees and, it seemed, out of the very brick and mortar of the house.
  2. (figurative, vulgar, slang) Bullshit, malarkey, nonsense.
    • 2007, Robert McCammon, The Queen of Bedlam[3], →ISBN, page 343:
      All that hogshit about mental disorders and dream states and such.

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