dishcloth
pronunciation
How to pronounce dishcloth in British English:
UK [ˈdɪʃklɒθ]
How to pronounce dishcloth in American English:
US [ˈdɪʃklɔθ]
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- Noun:
- a cloth for washing dishes
Word Origin
- dishcloth (n.)
- also dish-cloth, 1828, from dish (n.) + cloth. It relegated earlier dish-clout (1520s) to dialect.
Example
- 1. Their mother wiped her hands on a dishcloth .
- 2. Do the dishes with a dishcloth .
- 3. The little mans face wrinkled like a dishcloth thrown in the hamper .
- 4. I can 't find anything which doesn 't disgust me : there is the pockmarked servant with the food that smells just like the dishcloth , the window frame which is impossible to keep clean , and the mirror over the wash-basin ......