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dishwatery

dishwatery adjective: resembling dishwater.

Adjective

dishwatery (comparative more dishwatery, superlative most dishwatery)

  1. Resembling dishwater.
    • Measure precisely; fresh tea makes mass-market bags taste dishwatery.2009 March 13, S.S. Fair, “Take Tea and See”, in New York Times

Forms of dishwatery

comparativemore dishwatery
superlativemost dishwatery

Origin of dishwatery

From dishwater + -y.

Questions about dishwatery

What does dishwatery mean?
Dishwatery means resembling dishwater.
What part of speech is dishwatery?
Dishwatery is an adjective.

Words near dishwatery in the dictionary

  1. dishwater blond
  2. dishwater blonde
  3. dishwater blondes
  4. dishwater blonds
  5. dishwaters
  6. dishwatery
  7. dishwiper
  8. dishwipers
  9. dishy
  10. dishydrosis
  11. disialoganglioside

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