Definition of Bilgewater

1. Noun. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.


Definition of Bilgewater

1. Noun. (nautical) Water which collects in the bilges of a ship. ¹

2. Noun. (slang) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bilgewater

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilgewater

bileptons
biles
bilestone
bilestones
bilevel
bilevels
bilge
bilge keel
bilge keels
bilge pump
bilge pumps
bilge water
bilge well
bilged
bilges
bilgewater (current term)
bilgewaters
bilgier
bilgiest
bilging
bilgy
bilharzia
bilharzial
bilharzial appendicitis
bilharzial dysentery
bilharzial granuloma
bilharzias
bilharziases
bilharziasis
bilharzioma

Literary usage of Bilgewater

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Humour of America: Selected by Charles Edmunds Brock (1893)
"bilgewater, I am the late Dauphin !" You bet you Jim and me stared, this time. ... "Trouble has done it, bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung ..."

2. The Great English Novelists by Coningsby W. Dawson (1911)
""bilgewater, I am the late Dauphin!" You bet you, Jim and me stared this time. ... "Trouble has done it, bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung ..."

3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"bilgewater, kin I trust you?" says the old man, still sort of sobbing. "To the bitter death!" He took the old man by the hand and squeezed it, and says, ..."

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