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Wish-wash   Listen
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Wish-wash  n.  Any weak, thin drink.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wish-wash" Quotes from Famous Books



... I respect and admire your failure. I know what you write. I can see it with half an eye, and there's one ingredient in it that shuts it out of the magazines. It's guts, and magazines have no use for that particular commodity. What they want is wish-wash and slush, and God knows they get it, but not ...
— Martin Eden • Jack London

... baverdage, baragouin[obs3], platitude, niaiserie[obs3]; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae[Lat]; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; poppy-cock [U.S.]; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity &c. 497; vagueness &c. (unintelligibility) 519. [routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp. legal] boilerplate. V. mean nothing; be unmeaning &c. adj.; twaddle, quibble, scrabble. Adj. unmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensical; void of sense ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Wish-wash" :   drivel, vernacular, trumpery, potable, garbage, codswallop, folderol, argot, trash, jargon, cant, slang, beverage, applesauce, drinkable, drink, rubbish, lingo, patois



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