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c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 81 (MED) Þey in þe kechyn, for iape, pouryd on here hefd hoggyswasch.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lavailles, Swillings, Hogs-wash, washings for Swine.

1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar ii. 9 It was not improved to any deliciousness of tast, since he saith it was bitterish, and that it was more fit to be hogs-wash, then drink for rational men.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xvi. 70 Ten Sows..could swill Hogwash.

1799 R. Saumarez New Syst. Physiol. II. (ed. 2) ix. 332 Their flesh possessed preservative properties in as eminent a degree, as if they had been fed upon the best hog-wash in the best dairy in the county of Surry.

1819 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 119/2 The most curious fact is, that the chamber-pots are emptied into the hog-wash.

1844 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 247 Wine little better than hogwash.

1920 Times 8 May 13/6 Lambeth Board of Guardians have accepted a tender for £190 for the purchase of the hogwash at the various institutions for 12 months.

1944 R. Davies Black Venus ii. vii. 77 She was carrying a bucket of hogwash.

2003 J. Flanders Victorian House (2004) iii. 87 Cooks who were not thrifty put all the kitchen leavings into a bucket. The content was called ‘wash’, and the washman visited regularly to buy it: he then sold it as ‘hog-wash’, or pigswill.

1610 B. Rich New Descr. Ireland xvii. 72 The very remembrance of that Hogges wash which they vse to sell for ij.d. the Wine quart, is able to distemper any mans braines.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Taplash, Wretched, sorry Drink, or Hog-wash.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit x. 18 Your Butler purloins your Liquor, and your Brewer sells you Hogwash.

1773 D. Garrick Let. 16 Nov. (1831) I. 583 The Fair Quaker, which we agreed to be skimmed milk, (nay, hogwash) whipped up into syllabub, and swallowed by a foolish audience as if substantial as roast beef.

1855 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold II. xxviii. 122 Beer they have little or none, except a species of hog-wash, honored with the name of sugar-beer.

1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales II. xxx. 352 Many a one prefers a pint of hog's wash abroad to a tankard of generous liquor at home.

1923 T. Boyd Through Wheat v. 53 Wine? You call that red hog-wash wine?

1993 B. Murdoch Cornish Lit. vi. 128 Not only is their beer hogwash, the people are characterised by a propensity to litigiousness.

1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy June 862/2 I will remark, in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is ‘hogwash’.

1882 B. Harte Flip ii, 39 ‘You don't mean to say that 's the sort of hog wash the old man serves out to you regularly?’ continued Lance, becoming more slangy in his ill temper.

1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 329/2 Hogwash..(journalists').—Worthless newspaper matter.

1912 G. B. Shaw in Daily News 22 May 6/5 Exactly the same ‘hogwash’..would have been lavished on the veriest dastards as upon a crew of Grace Darlings.

1939 L. Durrell Spirit of Place (1969) 62 Only look at the faces of cabinet without reading their hogwash and you see that they are a pack of degenerates.

1955 A. Huxley Genius & Goddess 36 Tripe and hogwash dished out by the moulders of public opinion.

1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes iv. 173 Oh, I know the Freudian voodoo, the feelings of inadequacy that sometimes come to a man, the latent homosexuality, and so forth... But it's all hogwash.

2004 New Yorker 19 Apr. 145/2 Uncle Eric's boast of four hundred thousand members is, you will be surprised to learn, hogwash.