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ˈdish-ˌwatery, a. [See -y1.] Resembling dish-water. Also fig.
1890Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 13 Feb., The review [of a political quarrel] would be in its tenor dishwatery. 1910W. James Mem. & Studies (1911) xi. 284 Mawkish and dish⁓watery. 1928Sunday Express 8 Jan. 9/4 Then came the soup. Great greasy tins of a dish-watery liquid. |