noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Synonym of dishcloth (but now widely held to connote a threadbare and unclean nature versus that synonym).
2. 2
   a cloth for washing dishes wordnet
3. 3
   An unclean person; used in similes. slang

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

Synonyms

All synonyms

dishcloth

Example

More examples

"I dried the sink with a dishrag and now it's dry."

Etymology

From dish + rag.

Related phrases

limber as a dishrag

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