unwashed
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English unwasched, unwasschyd, unwessched, a weak verb conjugation of earlier Middle English unwaschen (“unwashen”), equivalent to un- + washed.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɒʃt
Adjective edit
unwashed (not comparable)
- Not having been washed.
- Synonym: (obsolete) unwashen
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 85:
- I say that the eyass should have her meat unwashed, until she becomes a brancher—’twere the ready way to give her the frounce, to wash her meat sooner, and so knows every one who knows a gled from a falcon.
- Vulgar, plebeian, lowbrow. (Can we add an example for this sense?)