Crossword clue
Hogwash crossword clue
6 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "hogwash", from 3 letters up to 8, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Count your squares, then read one row. The shortest thing that fits is ROT at 3; the longest is BUNCOMBE at 8.
| Letters | Answers |
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| 3 |
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| 4 |
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| 6 |
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| 8 |
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What this list looks like
3 of these are 4 letters, which is more than any other length manages.
ROT fills a 3-square slot, and a compact answer is usually the one a crossword wants.
Some of these are words for the clue and some are instances of it: 5 of the first kind, 1 of the second.
Which one does the setter mean?
Three squares is ROT, which is the shortest way English has of calling something rubbish. Four squares splits between BUNK, GUFF and BULL, and BUNK is the one puzzles use most.
How these differ
ROT and BULL are dismissals: you say them to someone who has just made a claim. GUFF adds the suggestion of backchat rather than falsehood. BUNK, BUNKUM and BUNCOMBE are one word at three ages, and all three carry the specific flavour of political speech made for show. Hogwash itself was originally kitchen slops fed to pigs, which is why every word here has the same texture of being not merely wrong but not worth the effort.
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Where these answers come from
This is a dictionary answering a question, not a copied answer key. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “hogwash” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 5 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.
Common questions
- What is the answer to the crossword clue "hogwash"?
- There is more than one. 6 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Three squares is ROT, which is the shortest way English has of calling something rubbish. Four squares splits between BUNK, GUFF and BULL, and BUNK is the one puzzles use most.
- How many letters is the answer to "hogwash"?
- Anything from 3 to 8. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
- How reliable are these answers?
- 5 of the 6 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.