wish-wash

Definitions

1. 1

   Any weak, thin drink.

   • Between the result of the above, and the ordinary wish-wash served as coffee, the difference is too great to be expressed.
   • They got 250 grams of bread and wish-wash for breakfast; in the evening, he who had worked got kasha, wish-wash, and bread.
2. 2

   Talk, music, or art, or ideas that lack any value, substance, originality, or meaning

   Talk, music, or art, or ideas that lack any value, substance, originality, or meaning; dreck.

   • It is a thing that fails altogether to interest; a wish-wash that only serves to pass the time.
   • They confined their sermons on Sunday to the decorous wish-wash in which average men treated in a harmless way subjects to which the people were indifferent.
   • it is a clearing away of the wish-wash which assumes that lack of national distinction is an international virtue.
3. 3

   The sound of liquid sloshing

   • As they lay there, dazedly reliving the adventure that had brought them to this place, they heard the sound of the wish-wash-wish of lapping water.
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   1. 4

      Vapid

      Vapid; lackluster; mediocre

      • Of course we fear to address ourselves to those gentlemen whose reading is limited to the daily newspaper and novels of the wish-wash order.
      • To suit a degraded English taste, foreigners like the late Mr. Lŏhr, had to write down to the level of the wish-wash drawing-room ballad.
      • After-effects are in this case in absolute opposition to first impressions —indeed nothing could better betoken a variation of the wish-wash order than that it should be instantly appreciated.
   2. 5

      Unfocussed, meandering or impulsive

      • Be nothing, do nothing, say nothing, and the world will let you slip into eternity damned by your own wish-wash, willy-nilly life.
      • he had a wish-wash way of regarding matters.
   3. 6

      To slosh around.

      • And that night, with the stars jumping and the air lating cold (for we were up in the 40's), and the John wish-washing through the seas at three leagues the hour, MacMuir told me the story of Mungo Maxwell.
      • A little scalloped cove where weedy creatures Trail in and out, wish-washing on the tide .
      • The sea doesn't care about you and me, It goes on all the time Wish-wish-washing away out there (In a way that tells you it doesn't care) With a sort of wistful weary rhyme, The sad old song of the sea.
   4. 7

      To behave in a wishy-washy manner, to vacillate

      • Hain't been a fair election in 15 years to my knowing, and I am confident about what I am talking about, but I am getting sick and tired of this wish-washing about eating tickets; have known them to do this after election.
      • With his eyes glued on the fall elections, President Truman is wish-washing this country into certain war with Russia .
      • What would your brother do if he found out you were drawing up blood pacts and then wish-washing your way through them?

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