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bilge water
noun
- Nautical. bilge ( def 1d ).
- Also called bilge. Slang. foolish, worthless, or offensive talk or ideas; nonsense; rubbish.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bilge water1
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Example Sentences
This resembled the old bilge-water of a ship for foulness, but both men and oxen drank of it with avidity.
Last night was very cold, and this morning there was ice on the lake, and the bilge-water in the boat was frozen solid.
With the rocking of the boat, the foul bilge-water washed around the child's limbs and back.
And they say the 'tween-deck and forecastle smells o' bedbugs and bilge-water, and they want their grog.
Nautica found him, inverted and full of emotion, fishing about in the bilge-water for the lost piece.
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