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Unwashed

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not having been washed. not-comparable

    "I say that the eyass should have her meat unwashed, until she becomes a brancher—’twere the ready way to give her the frounce, to wash her meat sooner, and so knows every one who knows a gled from a falcon."

  2. 2
    Vulgar, plebeian, lowbrow. not-comparable

    "Gannon is looked upon with distrust by a good many members of the Citizens’ Committee—or perhaps it is with jealousy. He remains, however, a hero to the unwashed elements."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not cleaned with or as if with soap and water wordnet
  2. 2
    of or associated with the great masses of people wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English unwasched, unwasschyd, unwessched, a weak verb conjugation of earlier Middle English unwaschen (“unwashen”), equivalent to un- + washed.

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