wish-wash

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim The sound of liquid sloshing

   “Then in the morning the washing of the deck; rush comes an engine pipe on the floor–ceases, is renewed, flourishes about, rushes again; then suddenly half a dozen brooms, wish-wash, wish-wash, scrib-scrub, scratching and roaring alternately.”

4. sıfat 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.”

5. sıfat Unfocussed, meandering or impulsive

   “While you are sitting by the side of the placid Thames, under shades of your own planting, planning the operations of a next winter's campaign, we are in the wish-wash way at Margate, amidst deep caverns, high cliffs, and expanded waters, enjoying the less calm, but more sublime objects of Nature.”

6. fiil 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.”

7. fiil 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.”