horse apples
Stable floor piles
Horse apples are the large, round, inedible fruits of the Osage orange tree, roughly the size of a softball with a bumpy green surface.
The name comes from their resemblance to horse droppings.
In rural American speech, horse apples is also a euphemism for horse manure, and by extension, nonsense or bullshit: That story is pure horse apples.
- manureAnimal waste as fertilizer
- dungAnimal fecal matter
- droppingsAnimal excrement deposits
- mock orangeFragrant ornamental shrub
- cow pattiesDried cattle dung
fertilizer · paddock · stable · pasture · bridle path · compost · trail · equine · orchard · knotty · bumpy · windbreak · thorny · mulberry · sticky · yellow-green · pungent · barn
truth vs. nonsense
horse applestruth
Accordance with reality
facts · gospel truth · honest truth · reality · straight talk
horse, apple, horses, horsed, horsing, horsy, horsey, horseman, horsewoman