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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

Example Sentences

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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

It’s thoughtful, disturbing, insightful drama that will leave you as wrung out as a sopping dishrag hung out to dry.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2017

Vicious was a dishrag who soaked up every ambient misery; if there were a disease in the neighborhood, he'd catch it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2015

She wiped it with a dishrag and rinched his face and hands at the sink.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers