Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bilge_water

1 sense of bilge water

Sense 1
bilge, bilge water -- (water accumulated in the bilge of a ship)
       => water, H2O -- (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)


1 sense of bilgewater

Sense 1
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle -- (pretentious or silly talk or writing)
       => nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum -- (a message that seems to convey no meaning)