BILGEWATER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pretentious or silly talk or writing

Synonyms:

baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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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