unwashed

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Not having been washed. not-comparable
    — I say that the eyass should have her meat unwashed, until she becomes a brancher—’twere the ready way to give her the frounce, to wash her meat sooner, and so knows every one who knows a gled from a falcon.
  2. Vulgar, plebeian, lowbrow. not-comparable
    — Gannon is looked upon with distrust by a good many members of the Citizens’ Committee—or perhaps it is with jealousy. He remains, however, a hero to the unwashed elements.

词汇关系

衍生词
great unwashed unwashed masses unwashedness

词源

From Middle English unwasched, unwasschyd, unwessched, a weak verb conjugation of earlier Middle English unwaschen (“unwashen”), equivalent to un- + washed.
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