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Wash in this sense is "swill"
Interesting, 'cos I've never heard leftovers for pigs called anything but swill, occasionally "pig-swill".
"Slops" would be the leftovers on plates, normally, which magically transmute into swill once in the swill-bin.
I wouldn't associate "hogwash" with the sea, as does Rhuby, but then I wouldn't associate it with pig-swill either. Something that a hog "washes" itself in, perhaps (i.e. mud & crap) ? There's certainly an association with the supposed filthiness of pigs.
And hogwash definitely means rubbish/balderdash/tripe/bollocks on both sides of the Pond.
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Contrary to the popular belief, hogs are filthy only when confined to small areas. Now
they are raised in special barns, which have to be washed frequently to control odor,
to avoid lawsuits. And before they go to market, they have to be washed.
And at the slaughterhouse they get wased again. That's a lot of hogwash.
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