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BILGEWATER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bilgewater mean?
• BILGEWATER (noun)
The noun BILGEWATER has 1 sense:
1. pretentious or silly talk or writing
Familiarity information: BILGEWATER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pretentious or silly talk or writing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle
Hypernyms ("bilgewater" is a kind of...):
bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)
Domain usage:
argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))
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