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washee en · NOUN

Etymology

From wash + -ee.

Meanings

1. One who is washed.
   • I realized this all too well when as a seminarian I got stuck with the job of recruiting the washees for a Maundy Thursday service. It's much easier to be the one down on the floor with the basin[…] 1995, Margaret Guenther, Toward Holy Ground, page 43:
   • The expression, "washed out," became extremely common, and not necessarily in any sense disparaging to the "washee." 1946, Intellect, volume 63, page 290:
   • You are not the washer but the washee. 1863, Life and Correspondence of Theod. Parker:

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