English Explanatory Dictionary

unwashed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Not having been washed.
  2. Vulgar, plebeian, lowbrow.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-unwashed.wav

Word forms

unwashed

Etymology

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

Synonyms

unwashen

Derived words

great unwashed unwashed masses unwashedness
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