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Definition of Dishwater
1. Noun. Water in which dishes and cooking utensils are washed.
Definition of Dishwater
1. n. Water in which dishes have been washed.
Definition of Dishwater
1. Noun. Water that dishes and cooking utensils have been washed in ¹
2. Noun. (by extension) Anything dull and lacking interest or flavour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dishwater
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dishwater
Literary usage of Dishwater
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody. An Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase (1860)
"Copperas and chamber lye are known to be good for common scratches, applied as
the last after washing with dishwater and drying. ..."
2. WMD Machete by Mark Plimsoll (2006)
"Inside, ready for consumption, all dishwater gray, lay its guts, ... Tasted like
crunchy dishwater. Another day, they again came together to offer me Atole. ..."
3. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All & None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1896)
"Loathsome word- dishwater is vomited by it. And they make even newspapers out of
that dishwater of words. They hunt each other they know not whither. ..."
4. A German-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1917)
"... n. dishwater, slop; (Distilling) spent wash. ... n. rinsing water; dishwater;
water for flushing. Spund, m. stopper, plug, bung; tongue (of a board), ..."
5. American Women in Civic Work by Helen Christine Bennett (1915)
"The yard conditions were bad enough to start with, and the people made them worse
by throwing refuse of every kind, dishwater and garbage into the yards. ..."
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