Hogwash
Hogwash noun - Language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense.
Usage example: the librarian told us a lot of hogwash about how you can go to jail for having overdue books
Poppycock
Poppycock noun - Language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense.
Usage example: starting with the cherry tree, much of what was written by Washington's early biographers was pure poppycock
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| complete | complete hogwash | complete poppycock |
Both words in one sentence
- Noble: For the past hour, I've heard more malarkey, double talk, hogwash, poppycock, flim-flam, slip-slop, pish-posh, wang-doodle-hooey than I've heard in years!
Source: Series / City Guys
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Poppycock and Hogwash. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hogwash/poppycock
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