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bilgewater

noun
/ˈbɪld͡ʒwɔtɚ/

Etymology

From bilge + water.

  1. inherited from *wódr̥✻ — “water”
  2. inherited from *watōr✻ — “water”
  3. inherited from *watar✻
  4. inherited from wæter — “water”
  5. inherited from water
  6. compounded as bilgewater — “bilge + water”

Definitions

  1. Water which collects in the bilges of a ship.

  2. Stupid talk or writing

    Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bilgewater. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA