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Definition of Bilgewater
1. Noun. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
Generic synonyms: Bunk, Hokum, Meaninglessness, Nonsense, Nonsensicality
Language type: Argot, Cant, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vernacular
Derivative terms: Twaddle
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
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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