Noun: bilgewater 'bilj,wo-tu(r)
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Pretentious or silly talk or writing
"The politician's speech was full of bilgewater";
- baloney [informal], boloney [informal], bosh [informal], drool, humbug, taradiddle [informal], tarradiddle [informal], tommyrot [informal], tosh [Brit, informal], twaddle [informal]
- Water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
"The crew had to pump out the foul-smelling bilge water";
- bilge
Derived forms: bilge waters, bilgewaters
Type of: bunk [informal], H2O, hokum [informal], meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, water
Encyclopedia: Bilgewater
Bilge water