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dishrag

American  
[dish-rag] / ˈdɪʃˌræg /

noun

  1. a dishcloth.


Etymology

Origin of dishrag

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; dish + rag 1

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Lowe said he grabbed a dishrag and tried to wave the smoke away from the smoke detector — only to have Moose start nipping at the rag and at his finger “aggressively.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 18, 2025

Smack in the middle is Asaf, whom the play proceeds to put through a tribal-political wringer that leaves him — and left me — a limp dishrag.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2024

What, you expected J Lo to turn up in a smock with her hair tied up in a dishrag?

From BBC Apr. 19, 2020

Once rumpled as a dishrag, too weak to stand and helplessly tumbled by waves, he was stranded and alone when he was discovered near death on Olympic National Park’s Rialto Beach in August 2016.

From Seattle Times Apr. 25, 2019

She stood at the sink, dishrag in hand.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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