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hogwash
English
Etymology
From Middle English *hoggewasch (found only as Middle English hoggyswasch (“refuse of the kitchen for feeding pigs”, literally “hog's wash”)), equivalent to hog +? wash.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h??w??/
Noun
hogwash (usually uncountable, plural hogwashes)
- (informal, figuratively) Foolish talk or writing; nonsense.
- Synonyms: nonsense; see also Thesaurus:nonsense
- (literally) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs; swill. [from mid 15th c.]
- Synonyms: slop, slops, swill
Related terms
- pigwash
- pigswill from swill
- See Derived terms of wash
Translations
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vilipend
English
Etymology
From Middle English vilipenden (“to treat (something) as contemptible”) [and other forms], from Old French vilipender (modern French vilipender (“to condemn, despise, revile, scorn, vilipend, vilify”)), or its etymon Latin vilipend?, from v?lis (“cheap, inexpensive; base, mean, vile, worthless”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to buy, sell”)) + pend? (“to hang, suspend; to weigh, weigh out; (figuratively) to consider, ponder”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”)). The English word is cognate with Italian vilipendere (“to despise, scorn, vilipend”), Portuguese vilipendiar (“to vilify”), Spanish vilipendiar (“to vilify”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v?l?p?nd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?l??p?nd/
- Hyphenation: vi?li?pend
Verb
vilipend (third-person singular simple present vilipends, present participle vilipending, simple past and past participle vilipended)
- (transitive, dated, formal) To treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.
- Synonyms: belittle, contemn, misprize, slight
- (transitive, dated, formal) To express a disparaging opinion of; to slander or vilify.
- Synonyms: abuse, disparage, derogate; see also Thesaurus:defame
- 1853, July 10. "Evil Birds", The Colonist (Nelson, New Zealand): page 4:
- But we desire, most unhesitatingly to condemn and vilipend a system of continual abuse, intended to fall upon the provincial Government, but in reality reaching and injuring the public at large.
- 1917, O. W. Firkins, The Nation, The Nation Company, page 176:
- But, for all their feint of nonchalance, these young persons have no other task in life but to explain and extol their own conduct and to vilipend their critics and opponents.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- vilipended (adjective)
- vilipender
- vilipending (adjective, noun)
Related terms
- vilification
- vilifier
- vilify
Translations
References
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