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Definition of Do the dishes
1. Verb. Wash dishes. "I cook and my husband washes up after dinner"
Definition of Do the dishes
1. Verb. (intransitive) To wash up dirty crockery, cutlery and dishes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Do The Dishes
Literary usage of Do the dishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing by Larry Chang (2006)
"I must confess it takes me a bit longer to do the dishes, but I live fully in
every moment, and I am happy. Washing the dishes is at the same time a means ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"So swiftly do the dishes come and go that when I am at the second course two
undersized German Waiters are hovering about me with the pudding. ..."
3. The Mentor (1893)
"Let me do the dishes," said Mabel, entering the kitchen, prepared for work.
"You wash the dishes! ..."
4. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1908)
"Further, to wipe a number of photographic dishes one after the other with one
dish-cloth, as one would wipe tea things, will not do. The dishes should not ..."
5. Community Hygiene by Woods Hutchinson (1920)
"... deal to help keep the kitchen wholesome. In chapter iv you learned how dishes
should be washed and the sink kept clean. You can do the dishes that way, ..."
6. The Phonographic Magazine and National Shorthand Reporter by Jerome Bird Howard (1904)
"She hardly ever went up and down stairs. Q. About the time your father got sick, |
what were you able to do ? -•/. Able to wait on him some ; do the dishes ..."
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