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.