Another word for bilge | Synonyms for bilge

Another word for bilge

noun

(Slang)

Something that does not have or make sense:

balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash, twaddle. (Informal) tommyrot. (Slang) applesauce, baloney, bull¹, bunk², crap, hooey, malarkey. See knowledge

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You are the deckhand, the cannon loader, the guy in the crow's nest or the pirate bucketing the bilge.
In 1872 he suggested the use of caustic lime to prevent the corrosion of iron ships by the bilge water, which he noticed was acid, and in 1878 he began a determination of the velocity of white and coloured light by a modification of H.
Eustace, who had concealed himself in the bilge, was dragged out.

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