dishwater

English

Etymology

From dish +‎ water.

Pronunciation

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Noun

dishwater (usually uncountable, plural dishwaters)

1. Water that dishes and cooking utensils have been washed in.

   The dishwater drained away slowly.

2. (by extension) Anything dull and lacking interest or flavour.

   This season's offerings are nothing but dishwater.

Derived terms

• dishwater blond
• dull as dishwater

Translations

washing water

• Bulgarian: помия (bg) f (pomija)
• Catalan: aigua de fregar f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洗碗水 (xǐwǎnshuǐ)

• Cimbrian: gaspüulach
• Dutch: afwaswater (nl) n
• Finnish: astianpesuvesi, tiskivesi (fi)
• French: rinçure (fr) f, eau de vaisselle (fr) f
• German: Spülwasser (de) n, Spülicht (de) n, Abwaschwasser (de) n
• Greek: απόνερα (el) n pl (apónera)
• Irish: uisce soitheach m
• Italian: broda (it) f, brodaglia f, stroscia f (Tuscany)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppvaskvann n

• Spanish: agua de fregar f
• Swedish: diskvatten (sv) n
• Turkish: bulaşık suyu (tr)
• Welsh: golchan m, dŵr golchi llestri m