dishrag

English

Etymology

From dish +‎ rag.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

dishrag (plural dishrags)

1. Synonym of dishcloth (but now widely held to connote a threadbare and unclean nature versus that synonym).
2. (slang) An unclean person; used in similes.

   You're not going out like that! You look like a dishrag!

Derived terms

• limber as a dishrag

Translations

piece of cloth

• Catalan: baieta f
• Finnish: tiskirätti (fi)
• German: Spüllappen m
• Navajo: łeetsʼaaʼ béljołí
• Swedish: disktrasa (sv) c

unclean person

• Swedish: trashank (sv) c

See also

• dishpan