Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Speech or writing deemed banal or foolish.
- noun A thin watery drink.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Anything wishy-washy; especially, a thin, sloppy drink.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any weak, thin drink.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic Any
weak ,thin drink .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any thin watery drink
- noun nonsensical talk or writing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What they want is wish-wash and slush, and God knows they get it, but not from you.
Chapter 31 2010
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Presidents Carter and Obama share the same presidential qualities; both being naive, one-side wish-wash, and weak.
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Read a boys 'book and you will find it full of fun and adventures and excitement, but girls are supposed to care about nothing but wish-wash, about self-denial and being good, and all that.
Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke
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Mechanics 'Institutes, and did other such wish-wash work, which is not good for much, except for the motive it shows; and having found that out, they were all the more willing to join in arrangements more definite and profitable.
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No: look at the buoy, wish-wash, rolling lazily, bobbing in the water, a lazy, idle cask, with nothing in the world to do on this day of busy mischief.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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What they want is wish-wash and slush, and God knows they get it, but not from you.
Chapter 31 1908
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All the world was lapsing into a grey wish-wash of nothingness, she had no contact and no connection anywhere.
Women in Love 1907
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And then, when ruin seemed to have come completely upon the expedition, _wish-wash_!
Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870
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"Bertha, some more milk;" "Bertha, you haven't given me sugar enough by half;" "Bertha, I like strong tea; no wish-wash for me."
Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Huy L, what are you a sell-out, a wish-wash fan of the Sharks?
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