hog-wash —(sl.)
1. weak inferior liquor:
- He had had enough of that sort of hog-wash ladled out to him for genuine liquor.
2. said contemptuously of writings of any kind:
- He taught sociology and I told him straight that hogwash was not one of my subjects.
pig-washing—(Metallurg y) the refining of molten pig-iron by treatment with iron oxide:
- A similar process, used for some time by Krupp, was described by Holley under the name of “pig-washing.”