Sekirov Dictionary

wish-wash

noun 3
adjective 2
verb 2
forms 5

noun3

•
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. — 1866
•
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. — 2013
•
(no longer used) 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. — 1926

adjective2

•
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. — 1883
•
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. — 1915

verb2

•
To slosh around.
- A little scalloped cove where weedy creatures Trail in and out, wish-washing on the tide . — 1910
•
To behave in a wishy-washy manner, to vacillate
- With his eyes glued on the fall elections, President Truman is wish-washing this country into certain war with Russia . — 1950

forms

wish-washed · wish-washing · wish-washes · more wish-wash · most wish-wash

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