Definition of bilgewater Bilgewater

We found 4 definitions of bilgewater from 3 different sources.

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What does bilgewater mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

bilgewater - pretentious or silly talk or writing
  baloney, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
  hokum, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, nonsense, bunk the quality of having no value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him"
  argot, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular, jargon, cant a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard
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  • bilgewater (Noun)
    Water which collects in the bilges of a ship.
  • bilgewater (Noun)
    Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

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