dishrag

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Etymology

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From dish +‎ rag.

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Noun

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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!

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