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Washy   Listen
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Washy  adj.  
1.
Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze."
2.
Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions. " A polish... not over thin and washy."
3.
Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse. (Local, U. S.)





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"Washy" Quotes from Famous Books



... should have seen How tame the furious fellow was at once! How he came down, snivelled, and cowed to her, And fell to kissing her again! It was A perfect female triumph! Such a scene A man might pass through life and never see. More sentiment then followed—buckets full Of washy words, not worth my memory. But all the while she wound his Countship up, Closer and closer; till at last—tu!—wit!— She scoops him up, and off she carries him, Fish for her table! Follow, if you can; My fancy fails me. All this time ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker
... is a pump like viscount Castlereigh? A. Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout, and spout, and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood. ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.


Words linked to "Washy" :   colourless, faded, weak, wishy-washy, bleached


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