Definitions

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  • noun nautical Water which collects in the bilges of a ship.
  • noun slang Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

Etymologies

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bilge + water

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Examples

  • I thought you ran a magazine that worked to put a stop to the kind of bilgewater this high priestess of blather spews out.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • The screechmonkeys who do your thinking for you LAUGH at you for being stupid enough to carry their bilgewater

    Think Progress » Thiessen’s Inconsistency Undermines Claim That Detainee Lawyers Can’t Be Compared To John Adams 2010

  • Three times a day the three of them sit down to eat at that table, in that floating house that smells of bilgewater and foot cream and baklava.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • These penguins have been caught in smaller, unreported “mystery” spills, or have swum through the oil-contaminated ballast and bilgewater illegally dumped into the ocean by passing ships.

    The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010

  • Three times a day the three of them sit down to eat at that table, in that floating house that smells of bilgewater and foot cream and baklava.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • The Strategic Counsel is behind this bilious bilgewater?

    catapulting the propaganda 2007

  • After 2000 dead soldiers, we can safely say your ideas suck bilgewater, mate.

    Think Progress » Bush to hold press conference 2005

  • Silence, and Jayve knew Mad was lying in the bilgewater of his own dinghy just beyond the thin line of runway lights that Jayve glimpsed through the rain.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • I would judge that it was built to do the same thing when bilgewater or seawater seeped into the crate when we were at sea-

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • Petric also spent a great deal of time talking about how he was going to prevent the incursion of rats, cats, bilgewater, and invasive plants.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

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