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单词 wash-up
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wash-upn.

Brit. /ˈwɒʃʌp/, U.S. /ˈwɔʃəp/, /ˈwɑʃəp/
Etymology: < verbal phrase to wash up: see wash v. 1f.
1.
a. An act of washing table utensils after a meal. In quots. attributive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > [noun] > act of washing table utensils
wash-up1884
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 93/2 Butler's Pantry and Wash-up Sinks.
1900 H. Lawson On Track 128 Grease inches deep in great black patches about the fireplace ends of the huts, where wash-up and ‘boiling’ water is thrown.
b. ? dialect. A washing-up place, scullery.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > utility rooms > specific
still1533
stillatory?1600
still-roomc1710
scullery1753
sink-room1823
wash-kitchen1838
wash-up1869
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xi. 130 He made even mother laugh..and Betty Muxworthy roared in the wash-up.
c. A wash; an act of washing oneself. North American.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > an act of
wash1839
washdown1849
head dip1886
wash-up1887
1887 B. Harte Millionaire & Devil's Ford i. 176 You boys can go there for a general wash-up.
1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan 64 They..dropped from the car and went back to the station for a wash-up.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. b–12/7 The shutdown of the assembly line for 30 minutes each shift—for rest and wash-up.
2. Mining. The washing of a collected quantity of ore; the quantity of gold that has been obtained by washing.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > washing or streaming > for gold
gold washing1683
panning1838
pan-washing1850
rocking1850
ground-sluicing1857
gold panning1882
wash-up1890
blacksanding1906
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [noun] > gold > obtained by specific method
wash-up1890
pannings1891
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right II. xxiii. 209 As soon as we had finished the next wash-up I was to go back to Yatala.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 16 June 4/3 The gold consisted of about a quarter of a million dollars in dust and three-quarters of a million in drafts. The estimate of the wash-up varies from twelve millions to thirty millions.
3. A dead body washed up by the waves.
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the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] > drowned
floater1717
bloat1860
wash-upa1903
a1903 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Last Hope (1904) i Passen thinks it's [sc. the grave is] over there by the yew-tree—but he's wrong. That there one was a wash-up found by old Willem the lighthouse keeper one morning early.

Draft additions 1993

4. A follow-up discussion or debriefing; also, an outcome. colloquial (originally Naval slang).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > outcome or that which results
issuea1325
outcominga1382
conclusionc1384
endc1385
fruita1400
finec1405
termination?a1425
sumc1430
succession1514
sequel1524
game1530
success1537
event1539
pass1542
increase1560
outgate1568
exit1570
cropc1575
utmosta1586
upshoot1598
sequence1600
upshot1604
resultance1616
upshut1620
succedenta1633
apotelesm1636
come-off1640
conclude1643
prosult1647
offcome1666
resultant1692
outlet1710
period1713
outcome1788
outrun1801
outcome1808
upset1821
overcome1822
upping1828
summary1831
outgo1870
upcomec1874
out-turn1881
end-product1923
pay-off1926
wash-up1961
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip > discussion > type of discussion
causerie1827
rag chawing1885
jobation1916
panel discussion1934
wash-up1961
teach-in1965
talk-in1967
rap session1968
whataboutery1974
whataboutism1978
1961 ‘J. Winton’ Down Hatch viii. 108 ‘My first, and my most pleasant, duty,’ said CincRock at the Wash-Up, ‘is to welcome you all here and to congratulate you on your excellent showing during [Exercise] “Lucky Alphonse”.’
1985 National Times (Austral.) 22 Nov. 4/1 The formula was complicated. But in the wash-up, the loan agreement between AMRI and Firglers was extinguished.
1986 Business Educ. Today June 19/1 A leaf should be taken from the university seminar approach book where in between introductory lecture and group wash-up there is a period of individual fact-finding and researching.
1990 Aviation News 3 Aug. 277/4 All opposing and allied forces at Clark can sit down for a face-to-face ‘wash-up’ to sort out what went wrong and what went right—and why.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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