dishcloth
noun
dishclout
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a variation of
dishcloth.
Example Sentences
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What good he expects to get, laying there like a damp dishclout, I don't know!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
Skinner took no part in it, till one minister remarked to him, "The great faut I hae to your prayer-book is that ye use the Lord's Prayer sae aften,--ye juist mak a dishclout o't."
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
And that is soon effected by the looseness and spunginess of the plaiding; but the bonnet is frequently taken off, and wrung like a dishclout, and then put on again.
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
"Yes, straight up and down like a wet dishclout," added Stirling.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Mistress before folk, gudewife behint backs; whaur lies the dishclout?
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
