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#167934 - 05/01/07 11:20 AM Re: hogwash® rules(?) [Re: tsuwm]
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To wash the hog I understood as ' to do a job ', that's what a saying: 'washing the hog' means here.
Let me wash this hog means : Let me do this job.
It felt like an encouragement to join that game. (---yes, they are horrifying, but.....)
#167937 - 05/01/07 12:16 PM Joined: Jun 2002
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noun: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
though I like Encarta's better: (especially definition 1)Quote:hog·wash
noun
Definition:
1. nonsense: worthless stuff or nonsense ( informal )
What a pile of hogwash!
2. pigswill: leftovers of food that are given to hogs to eat
#167940 - 05/01/07 12:34 PM Joined: Mar 2000
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To wash the hog I understood as ' to do a job ', that's what a saying: 'washing the hog' means here.
Let me wash this hog means : Let me do this job.
It felt like an encouragement to join that game. (---
Well, hogwash could also be expressed as 'bullshit.' What's the Dutch for that?
#167945 - 05/01/07 01:32 PM Joined: Jun 2006
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We have adopted the word in its original glory.
Last edited by BranShea; 05/01/07 02:00 PM.
#178159 - 07/15/08 05:37 AM Re: hogwash® rules(?) [Re: BranShea]
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#178160 - 07/15/08 06:57 AM Joined: Feb 2008
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It's a game we play here. Before coming here I had not heard it called Hogwash but knew it simply as 'the dictionary game.' One person chooses a word from the dictionary that they think no one will know the meaning of, and then everyone else makes up spurious definitions (known as 'daffynitions'). All the pretend definitions and the real one are read out, and people vote for which they think is the real one. If someone votes for yours you get points, if no one votes for the real one, the person submitting that (known in this version of the game as the hogmaster, gets more points. If yu guess the right definition, you get a point (or two, or something).
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three pages.
----please, draw me a sheep----
#186311 - 08/04/09 05:58 PM Joined: Jun 2006
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#191596 - 06/18/10 10:04 AM Re: hogwash® rules(?) [Re: BranShea]
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