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n. - Pretentious or silly talk or writing.

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  • I thought you ran a magazine that worked to put a stop to the kind of bilgewater this high priestess of blather spews out.
  • The Strategic Counsel is behind this bilious bilgewater?
  • At other seasons it affords but a scanty supply of an “aqueous matter” resembling bilgewater.
  • He is evidently an actual, real water sailor who learned his nautics within the smell of bilgewater and the open sea.
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