What's the difference between hogwash and pig?

Hogwash


Definition:

  • (n.) Swill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former UBS chief economist George Magnus called the comments from Navarro about the euro “hogwash” because it was not “Germany’s currency to influence or manage”.
  • (2) Those accusations are absolute rubbish – hogwash."
  • (3) Critchlow puts in a valiant effort during a visit to a community initiative with Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, who dismisses as "hogwash" the idea that the Tories have given up.
  • (4) The idea that the leadership doesn’t understand how bad the problems are and that foreign experts have a much better idea of what is going on in the Chinese system I think are hogwash.
  • (5) Because this is what happens in a hermetic system defined – more narrowly by the day, and especially by night – on the catchphrasing of hogwash and the homiletics of hokum ethics.
  • (6) On the day of the Newtown school shootings in the US the host angrily confronted members of the pro-gun movement on his nightly show, denouncing as "total hogwash" their argument that more guns mean less crime.
  • (7) Harald Heubaum from the University of London said the idea that shale gas prices could be as low as the US was "fanciful thinking" and that Cameron's suggestion fracking could play a role in the current stand-off with Russia was "hogwash".
  • (8) It’s a bunch of hogwash to think that his medical condition is going to cause him any more pain than anybody else,” he claimed.
  • (9) 4.06pm BST In a time of rigid partisanship, no issue is so purely polar as "Benghazi," with one side framing it as an historically significant crisis and the other side calling it hogwash.
  • (10) That is hogwash.” He insists Poland can achieve western-level economic development while maintaining age-old traditional Polish values and remaining a homogenous white Catholic country.
  • (11) The argument that London or any other city should protect its antiquated cabs from competition is simply hogwash.
  • (12) The statement runs counter to the view of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, who insists any link between climate change and bushfires is “complete hogwash” .

Pig


Definition:

  • (n.) A piggin.
  • (n.) The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog.
  • (n.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.
  • (n.) An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.
  • (n.) One who is hoggish; a greedy person.
  • (v. t. & i.) To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.
  • (v. t. & i.) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
  • (2) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
  • (3) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
  • (4) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
  • (5) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
  • (6) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
  • (7) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
  • (8) An argon laser beam was used to irradiate the round window in 17 guinea pigs.
  • (9) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
  • (10) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
  • (11) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
  • (12) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
  • (13) In guinea pig ventricular myocytes, the positive contractile staircase was associated with ascending staircases of both peak systolic and end diastolic [Ca2+]i because of a cumulative increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i.
  • (14) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
  • (15) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
  • (16) of about 330 000 for the elementary peptide chains of pig and sheep thyroglobulin.
  • (17) It is probably that tolazoline also releases acetylcholine from the guinea pig atria.
  • (18) Cell recovery data for the hamster, rat, guinea pig, and rabbit were related to body size with the hamster having the lowest count and the rabbit the highest count.
  • (19) Clonidine has previously been shown to potentiate HIB in guinea pigs.
  • (20) Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against the soluble form (S-COMT) of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT, EC 2.1.1.6) were produced using a purified preparation of the enzyme from pig liver as antigen.

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