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ˈpig's wash, pigwash
The swill of a brewery or kitchen given to pigs; = hogwash. Also applied contemptuously to weak inferior liquor, and in other abusive senses.
1630Tinker of Turvey A iij, These comming as farre short of his, as Bragget goes beyond the Pigs wash or small Beere. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph., Jesuitism 29 Moral evil is unattainability of Pig's Wash. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt v, If I had not seen that..pig-wash, even if I could have got plenty of it, was a poor sort of thing, I should never have looked life fairly in the face. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 284 [I was] content in my dog's chain, and with my pig's-wash, in spite of Carlyle. |