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Definition of Bagwash
1. Noun. Formerly, a type of laundry in which the washing was returned to the customer in a bag, undried and unpressed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bagwash
1. a laundry service [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bagwash
Literary usage of Bagwash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Afternoon Lectures on Literature and Art: Delivered in the Theatre of (1866)
"... a metropolitan crowd is hastening pit-wards to cheer the representation of
monotonous and wearisome imbecility, or to weep over the ballad-bagwash, ..."
2. Flood, Field and Forest by George Rooper (1874)
"Of his origin little or nothing was known except that he had held a situation
from his earliest youth in the family of the Earl of bagwash, in whose pay and ..."
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